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hippi
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reality
#5935145 - 08/05/06 05:54 PM (17 years, 5 months ago) |
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why must reality all be in my head. everything seems to be just thoughts in the brain .i create my reality through how i perceive reality in my brain. i sit here day in day out stare at movie screens computer screens tv screens movie screens its all one long uninterconnected play that we all must perform in.
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Re: reality [Re: hippi]
#5935187 - 08/05/06 06:27 PM (17 years, 5 months ago) |
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Perhaps you should go outside.
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Re: reality [Re: hippi]
#5935202 - 08/05/06 06:34 PM (17 years, 5 months ago) |
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It is only an illusion that reality is in your head.
The driver's seat is not where the engine is.
Look elsewhere.
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Ask yourself, what is it that feels? What is it that commands and operates the mind? What is it that is aware? What is HERE?
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Re: reality [Re: thatiAM]
#5936642 - 08/06/06 11:05 AM (17 years, 5 months ago) |
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What is here? What is there?
What is everywhere?
What is feeling? What is minding? What is aware?
What is it?
You are it.
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hippi
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Re: reality [Re: thatiAM]
#5936818 - 08/06/06 12:14 PM (17 years, 5 months ago) |
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im not sure what operates the mind. the universe i guess. its like going from infinite giant universes to infinite small universes all interconnected somehow. i really dont undrstand reality at all
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Re: reality [Re: hippi]
#5937205 - 08/06/06 02:33 PM (17 years, 5 months ago) |
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The mind is operated by the past. Inside the neural networks of the brain memory is stored. Short-term memory for the tiniest part, which contains our experiences of today, yesterday, and dozens of years ago. If a memory leaves a strong imprint, becomes biologically useful, or for whatever other reason, it is stored as long-term memory in your cells, in your DNA. It becomes biological memory, and the mind acts according to these memories. The conclusions and predictions our minds draws are always based on past information. Because that is what the mind operates on, past experience.
If you want to find the answer to reality, you must not look at the mind, you must look at the present, the here and now, your very being.
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Re: reality [Re: hippi]
#5942975 - 08/08/06 01:12 AM (17 years, 5 months ago) |
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hippi said: why must reality all be in my head. everything seems to be just thoughts in the brain .i create my reality through how i perceive reality in my brain. i sit here day in day out stare at movie screens computer screens tv screens movie screens its all one long uninterconnected play that we all must perform in.
Reflections..
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Quote:
AlteredAgain said: If a memory leaves a strong imprint, becomes biologically useful, or for whatever other reason, it is stored as long-term memory in your cells, in your DNA. It becomes biological memory, and the mind acts according to these memories.
Bear in mind I know next to nothing about genetics or neurology. If your statement is true, then that means our instincts are now based upon how we currently live...meaning we have very few to no "animal" instincts.
Please tell me I'm wrong or missing something here, because, frankly, that scares the shit out of me.
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Re: reality [Re: demiu5]
#5944966 - 08/08/06 05:50 PM (17 years, 5 months ago) |
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Instincts certainly define the way we live today because they are our primary modes of survival. Now does that mean that we have fewer "animal" instincts? Well, what exactly do you mean by "animal" instincts?
If it's the drive to preserve the genetic code of a species, the motivation to hunt and gather food, or the fight/flight behavior, then i would say no. These traits are present in humans as much as in any other animal. This is what i mean by long-term memory. These particular instincts are programmed within every one of our living and breathing cells. They are purely biological in nature.
Now if it's the form of instinct that causes a hare to run in a zig-zag pattern, even in front of a car which could avoid it much more easily if it ran in a straight line, or the instinct that causes a mosquito to become attracted to a light and heat source even if it emanates from a high-voltage bug trap, then i would say that humans do have an apparent variability of behaviour, even when instinctually driven.
Human instincts in my opinion are motivational. They do not determine fixed patterns of behavior, but can produce quite different patterns of goal-oriented behavior in different circumstances. They also involve motivation and emotion. Nonetheless, human instincts must be preprogrammed wants that are the result of evolution.
How does this scare you?
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I'm saying, I have never been taught, just as all of my family has never been taught how to survive, hunting/gathering, without [much] shelter, in the heat and cold. The animal instincts which most animals seem to have except us; further, we had to have these at some point, or else we would not have made it this far.
But I enjoyed reading your post and will have to come back to it later to think some more on it.
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Re: reality [Re: demiu5]
#5945087 - 08/08/06 06:26 PM (17 years, 5 months ago) |
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Being a domesticated human born into a nuclear family, i was never taught how to survive in the wild either. 
But just as an indoor-held pet dog can lose its ability to hunt, so can the modern human lose the connection to its own primalities.
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that's what I'm getting at, I guess. Does that mean that those instincts are gone? Or are they just buried somewhere incredibly deep/printed over?
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Re: reality [Re: demiu5]
#5945106 - 08/08/06 06:31 PM (17 years, 5 months ago) |
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I would place my bet on buried deep and covered with culture.
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According to Terence Mckenna, this is where the mushroom comes into play.
Boundary dissolution would cause us to dig a hole through our preconceived cultural and social notions and uncover the buried archaic roots which we were once connected to before the rise of male-dominated, nature-suppressing societies.
This could be seen as a way to reincorporate our lost animal instincts back into our lives.
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demiu5
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now if only to find a way to make them remain at the forefront as opposed to fading away like they normally do.
However, very interesting.
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