Comments on: THIS THING WE CALL “MIND” — WHATEVER THAT IS https://madelaineweiss.com/this-thing-we-call-mind-whatever-that-is/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=this-thing-we-call-mind-whatever-that-is Board Certified Executive, Career, Life Coach, Licensed Psychotherapist Sun, 31 Jan 2021 11:48:08 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Madelaine Weiss https://madelaineweiss.com/this-thing-we-call-mind-whatever-that-is/#comment-161 Wed, 13 Jan 2021 13:05:55 +0000 https://madelaineweiss.com/?p=3363#comment-161 In reply to Steven Nisenbaum.

Yes indeed, thank you, Steven, should be humbling in a way that helps for us all to realize how little we know, but that does not mean that we should not try to get some discipline over our minds, so that we are more in charge of it, instead of it fully in charge of us. And I would love to see that article!!!

]]> By: Steven Nisenbaum https://madelaineweiss.com/this-thing-we-call-mind-whatever-that-is/#comment-160 Wed, 13 Jan 2021 09:19:21 +0000 https://madelaineweiss.com/?p=3363#comment-160 I think this is by far the most important point that you continually challenge us to recognize: be well-enough informed about yourself and who you want to be. Otherwise we will be pawns of a powerful “mind” operating in the background of which we are only dimly rather than fully aware. There are other considerations, too, of course, since we cannot be fully aware at every moment where our gigantic computer “mind” may be leading us. The current New Scientist is a special issue that tackles a range of corollary considerations: when did YOU “begin”, how “likely” are whoever YOU is, where is your “Self,” are YOU always the “same” person, what are YOUR boundaries, do YOU matter, can YOU ever truly know “YOURSELF”, and is there more than one of YOU in the moment and/or over time?

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