(December 19, 2017 at 10:10 am)Little Rik Wrote: According to yoga and to me everything is made of consciousness.
Matter is the most crude form of consciousness followed by plants, animals, human beings and God which is the supreme consciousness.
The brain is but a source of energy that consciousness use to expand.
The difference between brain and mind is that the brain is a like a vehicle while the mind is the driver.
I neither accept you or "yoga" as an authority on any matter. I accept logical conclusions. Your particular conclusion was arrived at logically by Rene Descartes in the 17th century, but there are a number of problems with his view (which is called substance dualism btw). Descartes couldn't reconcile the mental imagery with which we are presented (mind) with the physical world we perceive to be there (body/material). He made an analogy much like your own. He said the mind relates to the body like a sailor relates to a ship. But even Descartes saw that it went deeper than that. When his ship is damaged, a sailor says to himself, "Okay, I need to go fix that." But when our bodies are damaged, we don't just say, "Ok. Let me go get a bandaid." We say, "Ouch!" So, assuming substance dualism is true, the vehicle analogy only takes us so far.
(December 17, 2017 at 5:50 am)Little Rik Wrote: A brain without consciousness is a dead brain.

(December 17, 2017 at 5:50 am)Little Rik Wrote: Philosophy is not only about expanding the intellect.
I think I disagree with that, but the statement is open to interpretation.
(December 17, 2017 at 5:50 am)Little Rik Wrote: Philosophy is rather love for knowledge.
Philosophy is the love of wisdom... true knowledge. How do we differentiate true knowledge from untrue (ie. false) knowledge?
First, by dispensing with your own prejudices and assuming you know nothing.
Then, by using logic and information to try to interpret the world. As you said in a previous post-- from the ground up.