Topic 2 - The Relation Between Mind and Body
Mind is outside the body.
When someone shouts “fire”, all people would run over to help putting out the fire. If instead he shouts “Huo” (the Chinese pronounciation of fire) or the “fire” in other languages, people would also run to help. Obviously, if people’s reactions are due to interactions of physical particles in the body like billiards on a table, then different physical voices of different languages should cause different reactions. The fact that they all cause the same reactions tells that the reactions are not due to physical interactions of particles in the body (like billiards on a table), but due to certain interpretation by a conscious mind which is outside of our physical bodies. Similarly, the fact that baby cries when not seeing his or her mother indicates certain activities are triggered not by physical activities, but by inactivity. This also indicates an interpretation by a conscious mind.
Like momentum and energy, spirit is not matter, hence does not occupy a spatial dimension and we cannot say it resides in the body. It is outside the body and outside the spatial world, but it affects matter. It is in the spirit space. It affects material world from spirit space in the same way momentum affects matter from momentum space.
Then is “I” my body or my mind? We will talk about it next time.
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