Abhijit Naskar, What Is Mind? Quotes
It's like we act as a mirror for the environment, or to a broader aspect, the universe.
In every walk of life, you do have the freedom to choose, but that freedom is based on the perception of the world and yourself which you have gained until that moment of life.
The universe perceives itself through us, or to be more specific, through our neurons.
All our unique human achievements may seem to be the creation of the unique human mind, but they are simply the by- products of our neurobiological response to the environment.
Our entire neurobiology acts as a giant input-output system, that receives information from the outside world, processes that information and makes a person react accordingly.
The more emotional you are in a situation, the more memories you’ll have of that situation in the long run.
Consciousness is simply the brain’s neural response to its surrounding environmental stimuli. Hence when the neural circuits malfunction, Consciousness tends to malfunction as well.
Humanity has pondered over the meaning of God since its beginning. It is one of those cognitive features that came along with the advent of modern Human Consciousness.
It is not about whether you have free will, rather it is about whether you have enough experience to make the best possible wilful decision in the current moment of life.
We humans are the gods of this planet. And we also have created Superior Gods than us, to have a sense of security.
Qualia of God refers to the private subjective experience or conception of God in people.
In your daily life, you make dozens of chooses between an alternative with higher overall value and a more tempting but ultimately inferior option.
The question - do we have free will, itself is not appropriate. We should mend our perspective a little, and start asking the question, do we have the freedom of will, based on our experiences?
Everything that makes you, you, is a biologically existential expression of your entire brain.
The purpose of Neurotheology shall be to ease human sufferings with a deeper understanding of the neurobiological substrates of spirituality and divinity.
Genes come together to construct a magnificent life-form, while neurons come together to form our Illusion of Consciousness.
Soul is nothing but the functional expression of protoplasmic activity in the brain.
Biology is run by intricate cellular mechanisms. Cellular mechanisms are run by Nature. Thus, the more we attempt to understand Nature, the more we get closer to our existential properties.
When you say to someone "follow your heart", it actually refers to the rhetorical representation of various emotions, that are precisely produced from neural activity of the limbic system.
The Qualia of God have paramount potential to alter your body chemistry through mind-body substrates of neurobiology.
Memory is the coherence of life, that possesses all your emotions, and ambitions. Without it, your joyous as well as agonizing experiences of life won’t have any significance to you whatsoever.
You know who you are and what you are capable of, because of your own personal history and the experiences you gained throughout that history.
As the neurobiology of our species gets more and more complicated, its functional expression, which we call the mind, shall get more vivid and productive.
When you are saying "I", it is actually the billions of neurons in your brain collectively expressing their functional existence.
Consciousness is simple, if you are bold enough to accept it as simple.
Without the harmonious electrochemical activity of all the brain structure, the very thing which we call "mind", would suddenly disappear from the face of earth.
