What is "Mind?"

feralfae: . . . I have no problem seeing the orderliness of the Universe as proof of the existence of some Creator.

Largo: "What is mind" is in fact a totally trick question.

Moosedrool: I like to compare consciousness to a sensation. When I see a chair, it is my brain that translates the inputs from the optical nerves and gives me the image of the chair.

Andre Gide (channeled by Ed): The facts are clear, and they have been known for a long time. When it comes to the metaphysics of free will, André Gide’s remark is apt: ‘Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.’ It seems that the only freedom that we can have is compatibilist freedom. If – since – that is not enough for ultimate responsibility, we cannot have ultimate responsibility.

Ed: Writing is not only a means of communicating, but also an aid to developing ideas that can be articulated clearly.

Tvash: . . . we're plastic, . . .

Ward: . . a sort of generalized insipidness, . . .

Ed: In spite of the fact it would blow your avatar cover, have you published anything anywhere? and can you reference it?

But who is going to say that physicality itself has a physical explanation, when if you keep reducing down, you get to that which has no physical extent?

This is why God, no-thing, and bed-time were invented; to put an end to kids asking, "Why?"