Watch the mind and see how it makes a drama out of the world.

Everything is you, everything a reflection of you, because you live in you, whatever you may be. Mind creates you and every phenomena in what you call existence, but none of this is ontological, it is all psychological experience. What precedes mind? Who is experiencing and aware of the mind?

Some are desperate to believe and some are desperate to doubt. I am full of doubt, I need solid evidence for anything. I need to understand it, sense it and even feel it. I’m full of mistrust toward the human animal, because he is so prone to error and illusion. His desires, morality and beliefs dictate what is truth to him, I must not fall in this blind senseless hole as long as I’m conscious. 

I truly live by this quote: “Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence” - Carl Sagan

Functionalism Notes

“Since mental states (beliefs, desires, being in pain, etc.)  are identified by a functional role, they are said to be realized on multiple levels; in other words, they are able to be manifested in various systems, even perhaps computers, so long as the system performs the appropriate functions. While computers are physical devices with electronic substrate that perform computations on inputs to give outputs, so brains are physical devices with neural substrate that perform computations on inputs which produce behaviours.”

“Psychofunctionalists view psychology as employing the same sorts of irreducibly teleological or purposive explanations as the biological sciences. Thus, for example, the function or role of the heart is to pump blood, that of the kidney is to filter it and to maintain certain chemical balances and so on—this is what accounts for the purposes of scientific explanation and taxonomy. There may be an infinite variety of physical realizations for all of the mechanisms, but what is important is only their role in the overall biological theory. In an analogous manner, the role of mental states, such as belief and desire, is determined by the functional or causal role that is designated for them within our best scientific psychological theory. If some mental state which is postulated by folk psychology (e.g. hysteria) is determined not to have any fundamental role in cognitive psychological explanation, then that particular state may be considered not to exist . On the other hand, if it turns out that there are states which theoretical cognitive psychology posits as necessary for explanation of human behaviour but which are not foreseen by ordinary folk psychological language, then these entities or states exist.”

Trapped between what body wants and what intellect wants. Both are equally important, though one is dominant over the other at this point. If one is taken care of completely, then the other will come to bring you down. Balance between them is the hardest thing because they are different attitudes, different styles of behavior. Mind is always in conflict, an endless riddle, an expression of the universe, of nature itself, full of desire and what it does not have.

The most mind exhausting philosophy:

1) How you get something out of nothing. How you get energy or matter out of nothing? 

2) Consciousness and matter. Do cells have consciousness or just everything with a nervous system? Are cells just another type of consciousness? Were consciousness go for those with Alzheimer’s disease or a coma? Their body may be alive but their personal experiential consciousness is non-existent. Is this personal consciousness converted into a impersonal consciousness?

When you assert something to be true, then you stop thinking. Your mind stops doing its job to investigate, it ceases to be mind. Those who find truth, doubt them, because there intentions may as well be to stop their mind from intensive, extensive and hard thinking that leads us to more curiosity and confusion towards reality.