#philosophy #mind #metaphysical # [[Epistemic status]] #shower-thought #to-digest # Changelog ```dataview TABLE WITHOUT ID file.mtime AS "Last Modified" FROM [[#]] SORT file.mtime DESC LIMIT 3 ``` # Related # TODO > [!TODO] TODO > philosophy of mind, [[Phenomenology (Philosophy) - Wikipedia]], etc. # Mind Let's define the **mind** as the software part of the [[Brain]], a kind of [[Physic/System/System|system]]. # You use the **mind**, or it uses you >The more fearless a person is, the less **mind** he uses. The more fearful a person, the more he uses the **mind**. >~ [[Osho]] >The **mind** is its own place, and in itself Can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven >~ [[John Milton]] Indeed, in [[Stoicism]] we often get this idea of breaking free from the **mind**, being detached from it? >The **mind** in itself has no needs, except for those it creates itself. Is undisturbed, except for its own disturbances. Knows no obstructions, except those from within. >~ [[Marcus Aurelius]] >Each man flies from his own **self**; Yet from that **self** in fact he has no power To escape: he clings to it in his own despite, And loathes it too, because, though he is sick, He perceives not the cause of his disease. Which if he could but comprehend aright, Each would put all things else aside and first Study to learn the nature of the world, Since 'tis our state during eternal time, Not for one hour merely, that is in doubt, That state wherein mortals will have to pass. The whole time that awaits them after [[Death 💀|death]]. >~ [[Lucretius]] I believe people who are highly physically disabled have this better understanding that the physical world does not matter, everything happens in the **mind**, look [[Hawking]], his physical issues did not seem such a problem. >Either pain affects the body (which is the body’s problem) or it affects the soul. But the soul can choose not to be affected, preserving its own serenity, its own tranquillity. All our decisions, urges, desires, aversions lie within. No evil can touch them. >~ [[Marcus Aurelius]] >The psychological precedes the physical. The mind drives the body, which drives the genome >~ [[Biology/Matt Ridley|Ridley]] # The mind is the source of all our problems >If a man knows what [[Peace from mind|peace]] is, and what **mind** is, he cannot write a book entitled [[Peace from mind]] of **Mind**, because **mind** is the cause of all unpeace, all restlessness. [[Peace from mind]] is when there is no **mind**. So peace of **mind**–no commodity like this exists. >~ [[Osho]]