How exactly can you study the mind when it's not a physical entity?
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I always think of the mind as my brain
You study how and why it works, not what it is.
yes it is.
There are many things that are real and yet not physical. Probably the most important things of all.
You study how people react to certain situations. The thing is that different people may react in different ways!
you are correct, they cannot physically study it, although they use all sorts of super gadgets to study the electrical activity in the brain which is what our mind really is after all it's all just volts and current.
Sigmend Freud asked this question and this is called the Mind-Physicality Paradox.
He essentially said that the mind behaves as a physcial entity and therefore can be studied.
Mind is studying you. We dont study mind. We obey to it, and it develops faster than we think.
Because the mind demonstrable exists - you have perceived of your question using your mind, framed it, written it etc. Your question is a product of your mind, proving its existence. That being the case the mind we know exists can and has been studied, and it has found to have structures and form, patterns of behaviour that can be influenced by outside forces. All these things can be analysed and measured and go toward the study of the mind.
In the same way as one can study a language. Thats not a physical entity either.
I think the mind is a physical entity. Its physical electrons zooming around a very complex physical structure. The problem with studying the mind is using a mind to study a mind which is sort of unavoidable when you study stuff. probably best to create some altenative form of intelligence and let that study the human mind. That probably wouldnt work either but would be fun and might mean robots taking over the universe or somthing.
A lot of psychologists don't really study the mind, they study behaviors and make educated guesses about the mind based on those behaviors.
Who told you it is not a physical thing?
It is what`comes out` of the mind that can be studied. The things we say ,the interpretation of sounds movement,the reaction to different ideas and circumstance.Why one `mind` interprets data differently from another.A persons`mind is the translator and interpreter of information to enable the being to exist in life.It is only by the collecting and analysing of these interpretations in different people and different situations,that we can even begin to study its` workings.Although not indeed a physical entity, it could be called a side effect of the working brain.
Why do you have to study something in the physical? people study God? emotions? the wind? The heart?
Why not? It is something that is a mystery? we have to solve mysteries so there you go.
We can't which is why so much of psychiatry/psychology is speculation. Our best example of how a nerve works is in a sea slug. 1 nerve, but it is visible. We can prod it here, watch the nerve, and see the result there. To date no one has volunteered to allow psych. to do the same. There are several posters in UKQnA.com I'd be willing to volunteer however.
we can only measure with questionnaires, brain imaging devices, and see if what we get applies to others as well. the study of the mind is a very tricky business as you're not sure what you may uncover.
Its possible to study your mind, but you have to be a silent witness.
Knowthyself.
The research of dreams has had a crucial roll to play in the study of the mind - especially the unconscious mind. In fact The Dream Oracle enables one to ask questions and receive answers direct from the ever wise unconscious mind, and proves to be a reliable source of clever advice.
You study the mind in connection to the entity. Entity makes pictures, stuck on the mind. You can reach those pictures via
entitie's help. If you want to find out how exactly, buy and read Dianetics!!
Ciao.....John-John.
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