structure, function, and evolution

[Guest guest]

I believe that the human brain is an important factor in how we see or

don't see ourselves.

 

I believe that the state of " no self " is not a normal state in all

people because it may not be a good survival tool for a meat body to

have in an eat or be eaten world.

 

It seems to me that the no self state that Suzanne Segal wrote about

could have developed or been deleted from the gene pool during

evolution, and that it was deleted because emotions like fear for

survival of self as a single individual was useful. the oneness

people got eaten and the " me " people survived to reproduce and prosper.

 

I also feel that we can alter the connections in our brain by diligent

work in the form of meditation and self inquiry, and thus establish a

no self state.

 

So I think that structure can monitor function and also, at the same

time, function can monitor structure.

 

Stu

[Guest guest]

I also feel that we can alter the connections in our brain by diligent

work in the form of meditation and self inquiry, and thus establish a

no self state.

 

So I think that structure can monitor function and also, at the same

time, function can monitor structure.

 

Stu

 

L.E: You've got it a little backwards Stu. It's more like the cellular

community that has organized itself as a brain, can alter itself using you as

ego to direct activities that the brain can use to alter itself. The " no-self'

state is the continual undercurrent of the cellular community, and the

self-function is just the steering operation to move the human organism around.

In that sense, the you you think you are does not and never did exist as an

independent entity. Think that music arises from the CD, but is not the CD. It

is an outcome of the relationship between the CD disk and the player mechanism.

In that sense, music is the vibrational outcome or expression of the CD but has

no independent existence. " Altering " is not something you do, it is something

the brain does to itself for the benefit of the cellular community which creates

it as part of itself.

Larry Epston

 

 

 

[Guest guest]

epston wrote:

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> I also feel that we can alter the connections in our brain by diligent

> work in the form of meditation and self inquiry, and thus establish a

> no self state.

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> So I think that structure can monitor function and also, at the same

> time, function can monitor structure.

>

> Stu

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> L.E: You've got it a little backwards Stu. It's more like the

cellular community that has organized itself as a brain, can alter

itself using you as ego to direct activities that the brain can use to

alter itself. The " no-self' state is the continual undercurrent of the

cellular community, and the self-function is just the steering

operation to move the human organism around. In that sense, the you

you think you are does not and never did exist as an independent

entity. Think that music arises from the CD, but is not the CD. It

is an outcome of the relationship between the CD disk and the player

mechanism. In that sense, music is the vibrational outcome or

expression of the CD but has no independent existence. " Altering " is

not something you do, it is something the brain does to itself for the

benefit of the cellular community which creates it as part of itself.

> Larry Epston

>

 

So you are saying that the brain creates a " remote contro mechanism "

called an ego, that the brain then uses as it sees fit... and ego,

sensing its reflection as effects that it causes, thinks it is a

living thing?

 

Very interesting!:-)

 

So how does all of what you said fit into the fact that you were

simply telling a " story " ?

I take it that you were giving an analogy, as in " pointing a finger at

the moon " ?

 

Stu

 

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