Apr 11, 2012 -- 1:36PM, williejhonlo wrote:

Another interesting book on the brain is The mind & The Brain by Jeffrey Schwartz. His work with people who suffer from OCD ( obsessive compulsion disorder ) showed that some of his patients were able to rewire their brains by use of exerting mental force.

Another book, Science and the Near-Death Experience by Chris Carter is interesting also.

Yes, using the brain to re-wire the brain is essentially what brain plasticity amounts to.

Apr 12, 2012 -- 2:55PM, williejhonlo wrote:

Schwartz attributes will power as mental force. He believes in a duality between mind and brain.

Dualism is a logical pardox raher than an existential reality.

Nature is the substance; mind, the function. The function never separates from substance, nor the substance from the function. Function and substance, though separate, are causally connected. Nature governs the mind, and the mind is nature’s function; they mesh. Although both retain their own character, they are inseparable.

The Heart Sutra

Apr 12, 2012 -- 10:35PM, Neomonist wrote:

Apr 12, 2012 -- 2:55PM, williejhonlo wrote:

Schwartz attributes will power as mental force. He believes in a duality between mind and brain.

Dualism is a logical pardox raher than an existential reality.

Nature is the substance; mind, the function. The function never separates from substance, nor the substance from the function. Function and substance, though separate, are causally connected. Nature governs the mind, and the mind is nature’s function; they mesh. Although both retain their own character, they are inseparable.

The Heart Sutra

Yes, they are one and different at the same time. Mind is something more subtle while the gross elements are something more gross.

It's relative to what you accept as evidence.

Evidence doesn't speak for itself, imho we depend on perception for our understanding of reality.