The Mind
The mind is
everything. What you think you become.
Buddha
Buddha
A mind is the set of cognitive faculties that enables consciousness,
perception, thinking, judgment, and memory—a characteristic of humans, but
which also may apply to other life forms.[3][4] Wikipedia
Broadly speaking, mental faculties are the various functions of the mind,
or things the mind can "do".
1) Thought is a mental act
that allows humans to make sense of things in the world, and to represent and
interpret them in ways that are significant, or which accord with their needs,
attachments, goals, commitments, plans, ends, desires, etc. Thinking involves
the symbolic or semiotic mediation of ideas or data, as when we form concepts,
engage in problem-solving, reasoning and making decisions. Words that refer to
similar concepts and processes include deliberation, cognition, ideation,
discourse, and imagination.
2) Thinking is sometimes
described as a "higher" cognitive function and the analysis of
thinking processes is a part of cognitive psychology. It is also deeply
connected with our capacity to make and use tools; to understand cause and
effect; to recognize patterns of significance; to comprehend and disclose
unique contexts of experience or activity; and to respond to the world in a
meaningful way.
3) Memory is the ability to
preserve, retain, and subsequently recall, knowledge, information or
experience. Although memory has traditionally been a persistent theme in
philosophy, the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries also saw the
study of memory emerge as a subject of inquiry within the paradigms of
cognitive psychology. In recent decades, it has become one of the pillars of a
new branch of science called cognitive neuroscience, a marriage between
cognitive psychology and neuroscience.
4) Imagination is the
activity of generating or evoking novel situations, images, ideas or other
qualia in the mind. It is a characteristically subjective activity, rather than direct or passive experience. The term is technically used in psychology for
the process of reviving in the mind percepts of objects formerly given in sense
perception. Since this use of the term conflicts with that of ordinary
language, some psychologists have preferred to describe this process as
"imaging" or "imagery" or to speak of it as
"reproductive" as opposed to "productive" or
"constructive" imagination. Things that are imagined are said to be
seen in the "mind's eye". Among the many practical functions of
imagination is the ability to project possible futures (or histories), to
"see" things from another's perspective, and to change the way
something is perceived, including to make decisions to respond to, or enact,
what is imagined.
5) Consciousness in mammals
(this includes humans) is an aspect of the mind generally thought to comprise
qualities such as subjectivity, sentience, and the ability to perceive the
relationship between oneself and one's environment. It is a subject of much
research in philosophy of mind, psychology, neuroscience, and cognitive
science. Some philosophers divide consciousness into phenomenal consciousness,
which is subjective experience itself, and access consciousness, which refers
to the global availability of information to processing systems in the
brain.[9] Phenomenal consciousness has many different experienced qualities,
often referred to as qualia. Phenomenal consciousness is usually consciousness
of something or about something, a property known as intentionality in the philosophy of mind.
We are what we think.
All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts,
we make the world.
Buddha
Buddha
Why is creativity tied to the subconscious? The
subconscious is better at free association, away from paradigm restriction of
the conscious.
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