Tuesday, August 7, 2012

A Brain without Spirit


It has been possible to broadly study the anatomy of the brain. The way the chemicals influence the personality demystifies the dark matter of human anatomy which is the study of the brain. Despite leaps in the scientific approach to the study of the brain there is a fundamental aspect which holds the most important organ in darkness. It is the existence of mind. There are diverse definitions of the mind. One is that it is a stored warehouse of emotions and thoughts that could not be expressed over time. Another definition points out that the mind is tantamount to consciousness without which the brain would be rendered numb. There are dualistic theories and materialistic theories of the mind. The dualists liken the mind to the spirit while the materialists hold the hypothesis that the mind can be reduced to organic terms, which supports 'Medical Science'. If the mind were to be a spirit then the phenomenon of memory defies it. If the mind were to be a spirit then why is it that some people lose memory when they are alive? It has been testified as one grows older that memory becomes weak in many cases because the brain maybe decaying. This contradicts the dualistic theory.


Let us take the materialistic view where the mind is supposed to be reducible to matter. If the mind is nothing but a physical component then what triggers the flow of chemicals? Why is there something called ‘personality’? Why are there individual differences in the consequence called ‘personality’? There are answers to these questions. Chemicals, personality and differences are explained by the materialist in that they are consequences of a complex process of conditioning. This conditioning is the result of responses to stimuli from the environment. They start off as instinctive responses in infants and are later expressed with sophistication which is the result of the norms that are observed. As emotions get more and more channelized and as there are many responses possible a person reacts in a predictable manner which is the result of self-programming.


The fact that personality is a complex mechanism is because it has taken years to construct it in the first place. We do not have the means to factor in the number of variables that go into the formation of personality. But it is not the result of involuntary calculation. It is more to do with manipulation which the determinists hold to be predictable due to predispositions which have nothing to do with the existing life time. In this manner they account for the existence of a spirit which is beyond the brain. But this to me is not convincing as the spirit cannot be conscious without a brain on one hand and it cannot have any personality to carry forward to a brain because memory itself is prone to destruction in the same lifetime. There are enough reasons to account for personality in one life time. Just because it is complex does not mean that there is a spirit beyond the brain. At the same time we cannot jump to the conclusion that there is no spirit at all. Why is that? The spirit itself can be the consequence of the way a human being finds himself forced to manoeuvre his way through the events of the world. The spirit can be that very personality which is the result of a defense mechanism. It is deeper than ‘ego’ and more subversive than matter but it does not precede matter.  It could be in other words the last stage of the evolution of matter. It could be a creative product of the limitations of matter. 


A brain can still function without the existence of the spirit but the spirit cannot exist without the brain. The spirit can be thought to be an abstract reaction to the experience of existence. It is the seat of personality as the latter can be observed while the former can only be inferred. Whether this inference is valid or not cannot be determined by the existing instruments of Science as neither memory nor abstract experience can be observed by them. But what can be inferred is that there is a creative response at some point where instinctive reaction is curbed and diverted. Scientists are still grappling with the phenomena of creativity and do not have access to the variables in question. Or maybe they are just limited by what they know. There is some unlearning required without which the education that we undergo itself can be an enemy to progress.

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Pkayen said...

I could not follow how you state that a spirit can be inferred using your arguments (whether or not such an inference can be validated). It seems to me that your conclusions can be arrived at without postulating a spirit insofar as the spirit is considered an effect of matter. Perhaps you should clarify how in your view, the spirit and mind are two different things.

How does this creative process that you mention actually occur? Who or what is responsible for it? Is it an independent thing or is it simply the capacity of the brain to learn and adapt?

Unknown said...

In the context of the essay, 'spirit' is not different from the mind. The reason this is so is because the lack of mind negates the possibility of a spirit. Spirit is an essence and can be observed when the mind is in flow. The essay does not prove that there is a spirit. It merely says that it is a creative perspective. If it is a question of adaptation then in my view, it is not a pure creative response. If it transforms the situation and converts it one way or the other to its conscious experience then it is pure creativity.

Pkayen said...

You are saying that spirit requires a mind to be observed. That is fine, but it does not necessarily follow that in the absence of a mind there is no spirit. But let us leave that aside.

It is still not clear why 'spirit' has to be postulated if it is the same as mind. But what do you mean by mind in the first place?

The brain is capable of all that you have mentioned, and not simply as adaptation. Thinking, feeling, reasoning, creativity, etc. are functions of the brain.

So the question now is: is the mind different from the brain?

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The mind is not different from the brain. It is only an abstraction projected with a distinct identity. It is just a dynamic faculty of the brain. The spirit is postulated same as the mind as the brain affects us only if it functions in the dynamic sense. 'Spirit' in this essay does not refer to a force beyond the body but the energy without which no action or thought is possible. The brain is capable of all that is said only if it is active/dynamic. There are contrary assumptions made by differing schools of thought. This essay does not delve into that.

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