I had to really read this carefully because I'm not used to the grammar useage. I have a difficult enough time with words, much less grammar - lol!

As far as being able to perceive something as "it really" is and not with one's own past, to me that still takes a part of the brain to push the past out of the way. While there is a life force there which may already know things on a more esoteric plane, on a human plane, it may have the whole computer (brain) in the way and then goes into a "not know".

I think to know oneself, there has to be "something" to know "about" and as a body, this might be gathered through the brain and stored in the brain and in the mind as well.

Which leads to another question. Is the mind the brain?

K

Memories are "life"?

K

If I ask you to describe your life, how do you do it? Memories? Experiences, which are memories, emotions felt, which are memories, etc... How can you tell me about your life without memories of how your life was or is?

Watch Kurt Russell and Goldie Hawn; Overboard.

Wake up and start a new life. That's the choice, every dang day.

Having survived a coma and loss of many memories and other things...I'm saying what it is. You choose a new life, every day, or you choose to repeat what you remember.

Not remembering sucks bigtime. But you learn and you adjust and go forth with determination to live happily, today and tomorrow.

Who can change the past, anyway? Change today. IMO

awareness, then to brain, then back to awareness so then now a forth or new awareness has come to be???

the first awareness, then all the brain CAUSED TO BE ADDED, then the two mixed toegther, WITH THE LAST AWARNESS, THEN MAKE A THIRD STATE, THAT CREATE NOW AS THE FORTH, or AS A NEW AWARENESS to start a new pro cess that span thru three parts of total pro cess???

the same as to be hot, then come into cold, then the mix be the third stage "mind alone always miss", then a FOURTH OR NEW FIRST STATE HAS NOW ADDED THE KNOWING OF HOW TO MAKE WARM???

then WARM, as A NEW AWARENESS, start again, AND NOW IT IS AS A COLD FIRST AGAIN, AS THE BAR HAS BEEN HIGHERED EACH TIME THE PRO CESS IS FULFILLED???

Agreed but what makes up your life is the question asked I believe. Memories are it. That is what your life is.

memories only created by a negative or positive emotion???

as if popping the awareness with a electrical charge of negative energy or positive energy???

so to for to only say leave the past in the past, only leave the knowing what one needed in the past as well, as if it is past that has any negative feeling able to be envoked, then it is still tainting the now???

in this way man human run from negative, which be the only thing that FIRST CREATE A MEMORY THAT IS NOT ONE WITH ALL ITSELF WAS BEFORE HUMAN???

as was not awareness first???

again, if there was not, THEN SELF WOULD NOT AS EXIST NOW, AS ALL NOW WAS CONTROLLED BY SOMETHING FIRST BEFORE SELF???

the same as to say, can a lawn mower be moving less something pushed it???

no human life could have come into the extreme process of humanity, without a very precice working and knowing of all energy, matter, and all things that all such thing are able to create???

SO IT IS MOST HARD TO LEAVE THE PAST, IF ANYTHING RUN FROM IF IF SOME OF IT WAS MARKED WITH PAIN, OR NEGATIVE, SO THEN WHEN SELF WISH TO AS CATCH UP TO ITSELF, is is like a spring pulling self back thru all memories, making self look into all that was first thought to be negative, and only when greater awareness, or "first awareness" that one "had" that was 100% as debunk all that was just as past, CAN THE PAST AS NO LONGER CHASE SELF, WHICH IS A DEBUNKING OF SORTS, WHICH ONLY "WILLED PLAN OR EFFORT TO ATTAIN" keep from the more, AS THIS THE CONSCIOUS MIND HAS NO POWER TO ENVOKE WITHIN ITSELF WITH A FIRST MOTIVE OF SOME CERTAIN THING, AS AWARENESS IN TOTAL AS 100% THE MIND HAS "NO POINTS OF REFERNCE TO SEEK THE RIGHT THING, SO IT CAN ONLY INTAKE ALL, and all as one, and one as all then begin the blooming of the human spieces into what the plan was all along......

the mind cannot see that to actually see negative response as the only debunking that free to heights of total awareness???

negative is what made the memory in the first place???

as if there is NOT NEGATIVE OR POSITIVE POWER, THEN WHAT OTHER POWER IS THERE???

ONLY PERPETUAL INFINITE, so this is as what lay BEHIND THE MEMORY???

what is left out of anything thing first by each thing that breath???

the negative of self most, lol........

as if one is what one does this instant, when one is all it ever was, is, and will be at all times, fo course this not being possible with a memory as it is ???


is it really that simply???

but then what makes one wish to hear all the words of negative, except total need of new, so then want of new, so bad until it hurts, and one would cut oneself just to feel alive as the prophets sing???

David, if I am understanding you correctly you are speaking of the awareness that we be. The awareness that we are in the world, of the world. I agree but the awareness is still a part of our memory process. We are aware, we feel, we process, we react and all of it is part of our memory of the first time we became aware, the first time we felt, the first time we hurt, we first time enjoyed, etc.... It is all memory of all of this that makes it all happen. Without the memory of the first of anything we would not be as we know ourselves.

Its a good way to sell a book to the credulous.

But seriously if you know someone who can demonstrate a psychic ability then for the love of humanity please have them follow this link, and fill out the application.

http://www.randi.org/site/index.php/1m-challenge/challenge-application.html

Even if they do not want the million dollars then they could donate it to research there abilities.

If psychic abilities are real (which has never been shown to be true) then think of the amazing advancements that this would bring to humanity. Perhaps even world peace dependent on the ability and the scale of application.

indeed, i am saying all that, but most ignorant in explaining the more i wish to say, lol......

MEMORY IS NOT AWARENESS IS WHAT I AM SAYING???

MEMORY RESTRICT AWARENESS DOWN TO IT'S ESTIMATED 5-10% OF TOTAL "MINDS KNOWN ABILITY"???

have not many studied and found legions eating away at the brian, UNTIL ALL BUT ABOUT 10% WAS left, UNTIL THERE BEGAN TO BE ANY INTERUPTION OF SERVICES AVAILABLE???

more recent now studies that 95% of all human actions being controlled by SUBCONSCIOUS BRAIN???

so make brain and mind as ONE FIRST, the BRIAN AND AWARENESS ARE AS NOW WORKABLE???

brain feeing into self DATA, AND NOT BRAIN ANSWERING, BUT AWARENESS???

awareness is not brain so to speak, as all things spoken are true in SOME WAYS when speaking of these things, so IT IS ONLY MOST BENEFICIAL TO LOOK OR THINK OF IT IN THE WAY THAT WILL ALLOW MORE AWARENESS???

so then NO RIGHT AND WRONG BUT MORE AS WHAT CAN SOLVE MOST THE WAY THE PERSON "VIEW" ITSELF, and this only anything that is drawing from greater awareness can describe, and so each have a greater awareness trying to describe, BUT THE BRAIN FILTER OF TAKING IN SOME THINGS AS GOOD THINGS, AND SOME AS BAD THINGS, FIRST CREATE THE "VIEW" THAT SELF IS OR HAS MEMORY, as the only most real thing that has happened is the BRAIN REISITED MUCH DATA, CREATING ITSELF SO AS EVOLVING LOPSIDED, as seeing only thru a hlf logic, and this half logic is completed when self only turn and see NEGATIVE AS GOOD???

and this act in itself BRING TO BRAIN TO BE ABLE TO COMMUNICATE WITH AWARENESS THAT WAS HAD "BEFORE BIRTH AS HUMAN", which then solve all that was negative while human???

ok.....just thoughts

peace

I personally don’t subscribe to the materialistic view of life.

To me, concluding that “life” is made up of brain tissue because certain things cease to function when certain parts of the brain are removed is like concluding that that a driver is made up of car parts because removing parts of a car cause certain car functions to cease.

The car ceases to function fully because it is no longer fully a car. But the driver is still fully a driver. He just can’t make the car do what he wants it to do until it gets fixed.

Memories are "life"?

K


If I ask you to describe your life, how do you do it? Memories? Experiences, which are memories, emotions felt, which are memories, etc... How can you tell me about your life without memories of how your life was or is?


Mostly - yes, I agree. I don't think the majority has been trained or made aware to do it in any other way.

I suppose if I had no memories and only "now", which instantly become a memory - things get really simple. Something like - here I am. And then it would be like having to retrain yourself everyday. Or, one would have to be able to absorb how to do things lightening fast because they'd only lose that memory later. Like a constant learning and creating all the time.

I suppose that's what my life would be like. I don't even know if I could explain all that if I didn't remember. I'd exist, but I wouldn't know as what or who.

Interesting :).

K

I saw that movie - also 50 First Dates which I thought was a lot closer to what it might be like to live without most memories. But yet, the person did retain "some" memories. Enough to know to take a shower, etc. She wasn't like an infant every day she woke up.

For my mother, I think not remembering was like a blessing. She certainly became more relaxed and a lot funnier :).

But then who makes the decision to be happier or not? Is it a memory that does that? or something else?

K

No, I don't believe it is. Read the Holographic Universe, chapter 1 "The Brain as a Hologram."

"It isn't that the world of appearances is wrong, it isn't that there aren't objects out there, at one level of reality. It's that if you penetrate through and look at the universe with a holographic system, you arrive at a different view, a different reality. And that other reality can explain things that have hitherto remained inexplicable scientifically, paranormal phenomena, synchronicities, the apparently meaningful coincidence of events. ~~Karl Pribram in an interview in Psychology today

You can believe we are more then what is here and now, but it gets us no where closer to understanding what is here and now.

If you brain is destroyed, then so is everything you relate to and call yourself.

Nuff said,

Yes, and in my head, we're all partying.

How would you know that?

First, you can only know that of another person by observing that he does not relate to you or this world. But, not being in his shoes, you cannot know if he still exists in another world.

I do not identify "myself" as my body or my brain. Do you?
The reason is because I have experienced awareness outside of my body and brain. Of course you will probably call that a delusion.

Homo Sapiens are hunter-gatherers. We only sense what is necessary for us to survive. Just like a bee that can sense the flowers miles away by smell, or how the cat can sense things with his mustache in the dark or the shark senses electromagnetic vibrations of a fish close-by.

Are there more out there than we perceive as reality? Since we only see what we need to see, but ever since the human brain is becoming much more sophisticated (by thinking more and more) we start to sense more and more.

I understand the philosophy of the spirit trapped in the body but what a miserable existance for the spirit to be trapped in an empty shell of no experiences, no new learning, no awe of sunrise, sunset, etc... Life is our brain for us in this physical world, there is no way around it, whether it be restricted by the memories as David suggested or the process of memories and creating memories as I suggested.

Our brain is our life, our heart can beat without most of the brain granted but we would not know it.

in a way life is "all in our heads", but somehow, all that's outside also counts, also leaves a mark, and in a way shapes our lives.

there are numerous cases of people with what you described as "pieces cut out of the brain" that after a period of adaptation, react to stimulus from the outside world, which in a way is something that helps them "reconnect".

so probably a mix, but our brain is definitely the mainframe :)