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How far dose the human mind really go?

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Posted: Sat Oct 08, 2005 11:06 am

Well you see, I would like some of your opinions about how far the human mind really goes, into tricking it otherwise? For example Can the human mind make things up when your afraid to the point of actually believing it? I believe that the rush of emotions and the thought of one that procieves what he is scared of most into believing that its a reality...

Posted: Wed Oct 12, 2005 8:01 am

[quote="Dramora Racell"For example Can the human mind make things up when your afraid to the point of actually believing it?

Psychologically (and physiologically, to a point) yes. Not just when one is afraid either. But then, one must also ask the question if the mind is 'making it up' and ponder the nature of 'reality' if one is to really get into this question. On the human neurological level, reality is a construct. It's a way we have of organizing information and we selectively filter what we use as building blocks and what we don't based on our senses and our worldview. Anything a human mind can think of is reality, in a sense; then ask if you're talking collective reality or individual reality?

Your case here could be either. Collective reality is what we usually call the physical world that we commonly experience in some way or form. People interpret this in different ways, leaving the door open for what you term 'making things up' and believing in them. Individual realities are are those things which are not so readily experienced by other individuals outside yourself or are experieced in radically different ways. Deity would fall under here to some extent, as would most paranormal phenomena. Here I'd argue you're not making anything up, but you're simply believing.

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