It behoves me to answer your questions, as I have proposed the dilemma.Razblo wrote:1. By "mind" do you mean the noise of your thinking?-1- wrote: What makes up ME, without the addition of mind, spirit and body?
That is my quest. To find that out.
2. I assume by "body" you mean the physical thing that is felt out to the boundary we presume is the outer surface of skin. Is this so?
3. What do you define as "spirit"?
You see, I cannot see how we can define you, or I, without understanding the terms used already to supposedly define ourselves.
1. By mind I mean the spirit, in a totally non-religious sense.
2. Yes, that is your assumption (this is what you asked, literally.) the answer to what you probably meant to ask, "is this assumption right" is, yes, your assumption was dead on right.
3. Spirit is a religious concept, but it can be used by secular thinkers as well. It is the combination and sum total of one's perceptive, mental, and emotional faculties. This includes the capacity and ability and interest to think, to act on motivations, to perceive surroundings, feelings and emotions, to empathize, to translate from nerve impulses to mental images, mental maps and at its most simple, actual feelings.
Perhaps I should mention that according to my defining these words (per your request), religious people (most likely, esp. Christians) mean by spirit all of the preceding under point 3., and also that part of the person which does not die when the person dies, and that part of the person which has the potential capacity and capability to directly communicate with god. To seculars, the spirit has more-or-less the same function as what the religious believe it has, except for eternal life and for any involvement with the supernatural.