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maxymoo 06-29-2007 05:01 AM

The Human Mind
 
I have studied countless things read all of nearly all of these critical thinking posts and yet nothing to me is as complicated as the human mind. I understand chaos theory and mathematics in bent time space and opposites in science but the one think I think that we will never be able to fully understand is the human mind. Every event that happens to us in our childhood affects, shapes, molds, and changes our mind. I do not mean how smart we are, I mean our behavior and subconscious, what we do and why we do it. The only mind we understand is our own, and yet we still have errors in it.

I can study astronomy and find it to be amazingly vast and full of useless knowledge.

I can study religion and its constant strife throughout our history.

I can study bio-engineering and all of the benefits along with cybernetic engineering.

However nothing is as amazing as the human mind, your human mind.

We make up all of these disorders and conditions to explain why certain people behave the way they do (excuses for ignorance?).

We are all prodigies and are amazing in ourselves, I am not secular or a renaissance man. I just do not understand people I would like to understand. And our differences are that reason.

FalcoLombardi 06-29-2007 06:01 AM

Re: The Human Mind
 
we do not have 'errors' in our mind, otherwise the mind wouldn't work...we simply have bad habits, impure thoughts and negligence towards what we perceive

devonin 06-29-2007 12:49 PM

Re: The Human Mind
 
Is there a topic of debate or discussion in there that I'm just missing?

Kilroy_x 06-30-2007 12:30 AM

Re: The Human Mind
 
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Originally Posted by maxymoo (Post 1632849)
Every event that happens to us in our childhood affects, shapes, molds, and changes our mind. I do not mean how smart we are, I mean our behavior and subconscious, what we do and why we do it.

I would argue the extent to which consciousness is fluid and changeable has demonstratable and necessary limits. Furthermore the extent to which any given event shapes a given mind is very much open to both conjecture and debate.

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The only mind we understand is our own, and yet we still have errors in it.
I actually don't believe human beings can understand their own mind completely, otherwise there would be no such thing as a subconscious. Of course, the concept of a subconscious is actually sloppy shorthand for physically reducible phenomenon, which with our current state of understanding can even be associated to an extent with the more obvious aspects of general brain architecture.

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I can study astronomy and find it to be amazingly vast and full of useless knowledge.
Astronomy has plenty of useful applications.

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However nothing is as amazing as the human mind, your human mind.
Perhaps in your mind. :P

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We make up all of these disorders and conditions to explain why certain people behave the way they do (excuses for ignorance?).
I wouldn't say they are completely made up, but there are questionable things about, well, classic psychological theory in general, as well as applications of any branch of psychological knowledge. It basically goes like this; what human beings are is a purely scientific question, but what human beings should be or whether any way of being human is "good" or "bad" is a question of values, or Philosophy. So the two things lay at either side of the classic is-ought and fact-value distinctions, yet somehow "sciences" like Psychology take it upon themselves to blend the two in a haphazard, sloppy, analog fashion. To be fair, Psychology is not the only realm of knowledge guilty of this, Economics is also infamous for this offense. Which, being proper, really means that Economists and Psychologists are guilty of these offenses in their lines of thought, since the two things represent forms of thought engaged in by individuals, not distinct entities.

ShAiOnEi 06-30-2007 01:07 AM

Re: The Human Mind
 
Can I see your certificate for this plz?

Vendetta21 06-30-2007 01:07 AM

Re: The Human Mind
 
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Originally Posted by devonin (Post 1633185)
Is there a topic of debate or discussion in there that I'm just missing?

Nope. Just loosely associated statements.


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