*What is it?
*How is it important?
*In what ways is it linked with the mind?
I believe in the Mind-Body Connection. It's like Morpheus says in The Matrix, "the body can't live without the mind." Technically this isn't true (think of life support being used in the case of a patient with severe brain damage), though this depends on our definition of how much the mind has to be undamaged in order to be counted as "living."
But when we consider something like physical health, we know that this affects the mind in several overt ways. Eating well and getting enough exercise makes a person happier than they would be if they didn't exercise enough and ate junk food (I would know). Then there is the issue of chemical imbalance, which we tend to medicate (attempting to stabilize the Mind-Body Connection) in this society. Take Depression, for example. Someone's mind (obviously, in this context I use the immaterial meaning of the word "Mind," likening it to something like "intelligence" or "personality," rather than "brain") is made unhappy by the body.
*How is it important?
*In what ways is it linked with the mind?
I believe in the Mind-Body Connection. It's like Morpheus says in The Matrix, "the body can't live without the mind." Technically this isn't true (think of life support being used in the case of a patient with severe brain damage), though this depends on our definition of how much the mind has to be undamaged in order to be counted as "living."
But when we consider something like physical health, we know that this affects the mind in several overt ways. Eating well and getting enough exercise makes a person happier than they would be if they didn't exercise enough and ate junk food (I would know). Then there is the issue of chemical imbalance, which we tend to medicate (attempting to stabilize the Mind-Body Connection) in this society. Take Depression, for example. Someone's mind (obviously, in this context I use the immaterial meaning of the word "Mind," likening it to something like "intelligence" or "personality," rather than "brain") is made unhappy by the body.
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