(April 15, 2017 at 7:33 am)Lucanus Wrote:(April 15, 2017 at 6:38 am)Little Rik Wrote: Gee Luc I am so so so excited that you will become a great great expert in the brain activity.
Please Luc do me a favor.
Ask your professor who decide to start the action.
The I the mind or the brain and if there is any difference between the I the mind and the brain.
I have been asking so many people and no one could tell me for sure.
I am sure that your professor will know the answer.
Please help LR to understand.
1) I asked you a question. This is not an answer to it.
2) The point is exactly that we still do not know for sure how exactly consciousness works. From what we know, we can only infer that it is linked to very complex functions of the brain. There are thousands of people around the world that have been working their asses off for their entire lives trying to gain - inch by inch - a little more understanding about these incredibly complex issues. And there is plenty of peer-reviewed literature (not to mention entire textbooks) to prove that - slowly but surely- we are getting there. And it really does piss me off when you just throw your opinion around like it's absolute fact - like this:
(April 14, 2017 at 8:12 am)Little Rik Wrote: The pineal gland is the seat of the consciousness and when the consciousness is 100% pure you are God.All you do, time and time again, is that you never even consider the fact that the scientific community just hasn't gotten there yet, because it's a very complicated topic that requires a great deal of effort to get into, and it takes a lot of time to produce and validate results because of the huge number of variables involved. On the other hand, it seems like you just take a shit on all of these people's efforts and just say "Yeah it's spiritual and magic I'm 100% sure because permanent happiness or whatever".
Where I'm from, we have a saying that goes: "Nessuno nasce imparato" ("Nobody is born learned" - even though in Italian it is grammatically incorrect lol). Please do take it to heart. You'll find it will improve the quality of conversation with you a great deal.
Easy answer to your question.
The very reason why the scientific community has yet to give an answer to the question that you just put forward is because these people think that by studying the mind and the brain they can come up with the answer.
Unfortunately these folks never realized that the answer lie in the PRACTICE not in theories.
As far as these folks will keep on engaging in theories and not in practice they will never ever come up with understanding how the system works.
Yoga knew the answer 7000 years ago because yoga is 1 or 2% theory and 98-99% practice.
Unfortunately you and your professor will have to bang your heads hundreds or thousand of times before you will do the right thing and get out the corral of dogmas in which you guys are.