pg18 Does the influence of spirit on matter violate physics laws?

As everything is composite of elementary particles (the most fundamental building blocks of matter) which follow physics laws, nothing in Nature should violate physics laws.  That means, the influence of spirit on matter should not violate physics laws either.    

It is however mysterious that, while no physics laws (which involve no intention) seem to be violated on microscopic scale, how can intention be implemented on macroscopic scale?  For example, it appears that new laws are implemented at larger scales, such as DNA laws in biology, supply and demand law in economics, etc.  But no physics law is violated.  On the other hand, it also appears hard to understand why few chemical laws, biological laws and higher level laws are “derivable” from basic physics laws.  It is only an excuse to claim they are too complicated to derive, because at the higher complicated level, such as biology and economy level, certain intention emerges, whereas at the bottom physics level, no intention exists.  How can intentional laws be derived from non-intention laws?  Where does the intention get in?  If they are not derivable from physics laws, how can they be both implemented without conflicting each other?  These are the central subjects of mind-body interactions. 

We are coming to the core – how mind manipulates body.  To answer this, we need to clarify what is the reality of a body on which mind is acting.  We’ll talk about it next.  

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pg17 How does spirit make its influence on matter? - Moving first few atoms in the brain.

Topic 3- Acts Of Minds 

How does spirit make its influence on matter?  - Moving first few atoms in the brain. 

Once we are assured of the existence of spirit, the next question is how spirit makes its influence on matter.  Before getting into this question, let’s make some observations.  Presumably, matter must follow set physics laws except being altered within the limit of quantum uncertainty (we will talk about other uncertainties later, for now we will consider this simple case only).  How can it be influenced by a spirit and does it violate any physics laws?  If we assume activities of a man is controlled by brain, the question nails down to “how spirit affects a brain”.  While we don’t know how, somehow it has to trigger (within limits of uncertainty) the first few atoms in the brain to move, which in turn trigger other atoms and eventually affect the body to achieve whatever it intends to do.  If spirit can somehow affect the first few atoms in a brain, it can affect any atom in Nature, such as, the first few atoms in a hurricane. A spirit or mind could change certain atoms/molecules in a DNA and cause evolution in a desired direction, even though the spirit does not show up like a human being.    

As body movement is triggered and carried out, obviously we have to check if physics laws are violated and how can it be possible?  We’ll talk about it next.  

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pg16 Continuation of spirits at death.

Does spirits die with the body?

When a man dies, exactly what other people see is that the body stops moving and responding.  All can be concluded is that the spirit gave up controlling the body.  There is no reason to claim the spirit is dead simultaneously, because they are different and independent entities, residing in different spaces.  It is like when the driver left his car, the fact that the car is not moving doesn't mean the driver is dead.  The most one can prove is the departure of spirit from the body.  If the spirit happens to die at the same time, it is only coincidental.  Since death is only the departure of the spirit from the body, it should result in regaining the real eyes (and senses) and seeing more clearly. 

However, we cannot prove whether spirits reincarnate.  

We are gradually getting to the interaction between mind and body now.  That’s the topic we are turning to next.  

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pg15 Virtual Reality as a Close Analogy to Spirit-Body Relationship. (part 2 of 2)

The world we live in is very much like the game world, where:

- Our body is the puppy.

- Our 3-d space in daily life is the 3-d space in the game.

- "We", the controllers, are the spirits/minds. 

- The controller (the spirit) takes up outside real world space (that is, the spirit space) but not the space in the game world.  All spirits (game players) reside in the spirit space (outside world). 

No one can prove this is not true.  Whether the spirit space actually exist in nature is not important, because even if it doesn't exist it can be invented in the same way momentum space is invented in physics.  Likewise, whether the connection between spirit and human body is exactly the same as the wiring between the controller and the puppy in the video game is immaterial as long as we know that spirit exists outside our body (and space) and actually controls our body. 

Then will spirit die?  We will talk about it next time.

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pg14 Virtual Reality as a Close Analogy to Spirit-Body Relationship. (part 1 of 2)

Assume we have a 3-dimensional video game with a puppy in it.  Suppose somehow we can connect every point of the 3-d puppy with the corresponding point in the brain of the game player (the controller).  If the puppy hits something hard in the 3-d video game by his right hand, the player would also feel hitting something hard with his right hand.  If the puppy sees a blue bird in the game, he sees a blue bird in his brain too (even though there isn’t any blue bird in the real world of the player).  If the puppy is flying, the player would “feel” flying as well, despite the fact that he is not flying in his real world.  His feeling is exactly the same as the 3-d puppy's.  He feels the same world as the puppy does. 

- If, in addition to his puppy eyes in the game, he also keeps his own eyes in the real world, then he knows his feeling of the world in the game is only a simulation rather than real. 

- However, if he cannot keep his own eyes in the real world, then he would not know his feeling of the game world is unreal, rather he would consider the game world as the only world that exists, and he wouldn’t realize that he is actually blind to an outside real world. 

- He might remember there was an outside real world before he got connected to the puppy.  But if he was born to be connected to the puppy and had never seen the outside real world, then he would believe the game world is the only real world and would never realize there is an outside real world which he is actually blinded to. 

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pg13 What is "I"? (part 2 of 2)

2. Identity of “I” is not my brain but my mind.  When someone says "I", what does the "I" mean?  For example, if I hurt my finger, I feel my finger is painful.  Who is feeling the pain?  It doesn't seem to be the finger, because with anesthesia in the brain the painful feeling goes away.  Then, can we identify “I” with the brain?  As we know, at the time of brain pain, there is still “someone” who is feeling the pain but who is “not” the brain itself.  On the other hand, “I” feel pain when I am under verbal attack.  “I” feel sad when a close friend died.  Brain pain is different from “I feel painful”.  It is the psychological pain which is in “me”.  This pain is in “mind”, but not in the “physical” body.  In other words, the real identity of “I” is the mind, which is outside my physical body and is not matter.  But this identity of “I” is feeling all physical and psychological pain/happiness of a human being.  

3. “I” am my spirit/mind.  These days, as technology advances, many body parts can be substituted by artificial ones, such as false teeth.  Suppose one day everything, including brain (because the brain is not myself, nor my mind), in the body can be substituted, and the “artificial body” can act just like a normal man.  In this case, the man is still living and its identity still exists.  Then what is the identity of the man?  Wouldn’t it be the mind/spirit which controls the material body whether it’s natural or artificial?  Also it’s interesting to ask whether this man with artificial body is a living man or a ghost.  Yes, it’s a man as it is changed gradually from a natural man to an artificial man.  But since there is no natural material in the body, the mind acts directly on artificial matter, it is no different from a ghost acting on and moving a desk. 

All three considerations point to the same answer: the identity, “I”, is the mind/spirit rather than the material body. 

We will show “I” is my mind rather than my body using video game as an example next time.

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pg12 What is "I"? (part 1 of 2)

What is the identity “I”?  This question may be tackled in four different ways. 

1. “I” am not my body.  When asked, “What is a man?”  Many may answer, “A man is just the material body of a human being.  There is nothing other than the material body in a human being.”  If that is the case, then why do we say a man is dead when the body still exists and is lying there?  If material body is all there is to a human being, there is no reason to claim he is dead since the matter, the material body, is still there.  How can one differentiate a living body from a dead body?  Obviously there is some difference.  The only way we can properly describe the difference is to say, “A living body is a man with mind/spirit intact, while a dead body is a man whose mind/spirit has given up control of his body.  The identity of a man is actually the mind/spirit, rather than the body.” 

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pg11 Mind is outside the body.

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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pg10 Spirit space

While momentum is not visible and cannot be drawn in ordinary space, it can be drawn graphically in a space called momentum space.  Similarly spirits are not visible in ordinary space but also should be represented in a space called spirit space.  (Actually, the analogy between spirit and momentum makes sense as materialism simply considers the act of spirit/mind as the accumulated act of the momenta of numerous particles.)  The characteristics and rules governing spirit operations in spirit space is a scientific subject.  When being studied, it should be under rigorous scientific rules, rather than under the doctrine of morality, belief or religion.  Nevertheless, it is also unscientific to deny involvement of morality, belief or religion if it is in fact a result of scientific conclusion. 

We will talk about the relations between mind and body next time.

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pg09 Mind is manifested through its effect, like energy and temperature

How do we know energy exist?  We know through its effects on visible objects, like water boiled.  How do we know mind exist?  We also know through its effects on visible objects, e.g. astronauts landing on the moon.  We do not say energy does not exist because we cannot see it.  Similarly, we have no reason to claim mind does not exist simply because it’s invisible.  Energy is as invisible as mind.  Some scientifically minded claim “I don’t believe it exists unless I see it”.  This isn’t a very scientific statement.  Numerous things in Nature exist but cannot be seen.  For example, energy, momentum, time, temperature, interest rate, culture, etc., they all exist but are not visible.  No one would deny their existence.  We don’t see them directly but we recognize their existence through their effects on visible objects.  For example, by seeing objects moving you know the object is under the influence of momentum and energy.  By seeing water freezing or vaporizing you know temperature is low or high.  Similarly, you know there is mind acting on an object when you see it acts differently from non-living objects, such as astronaut flying to the moon. 

Then where is mind?  We will talk about it next time.

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