The Mind of Christ

Pointless Posts, Raves n Rants, Obscure Opinions

Moderator: Moderators

Post Reply
John D. Brey
Newbie
Posts: 5
Joined: Thu Apr 05, 2018 9:00 pm

The Mind of Christ

Post #1

Post by John D. Brey »

We have yet to see how or to what extent or even whether the acquisition of mind may have changed or may yet change the natural order of things. Human beings have escaped the harsh realities of natural selection, but the rest of the biological planet has not. It is not simply that we have created mental pastimes which make our passage through life more pleasant, or at least more tolerable; through mind, we have begun to alter nature, and even our biological selves, in ways never before seen in the biosphere in which we evolved.

Professor William R. Clark, Sex and the Origins of Death, p. 176.​
In Professor Clark's insightful book he all but concedes that mind is a parallel life-form to body. The mind/body problem that's vexed philosophers and scientists is circumscribed by the fact that two life-forms inhabit the singular space of a physical body. The question that thus arises, and Professor Clark engages it, is which life-form came first? Which life-form is piggy-backing the other? Which life-form is parasiting on the other? . . . Perhaps more importantly, is one life-form an epiphenomena of the other? Is mind an epiphenomenon of body, or is body an epiphenomenon of mind? Until the modern age of science, the latter seemed impossible. But modern physics has made the idea of body being a phenomena of mind a scientifically justifiable proposition. Chomsky remarks that until someone can show him a real, solid, material (that doesn't break down into packets of information, quanta), the idea of mind being a product of matter is absurd.

Bringing the meme into the equation seems fruitful in that the meme is analogous to the gene. The meme is where evolution, novelty, experimentation, takes place for mind, even as the gene fulfills that function for the body.

Ironically Judaism has long fancied the sacred text of the Torah as the DNA of the memes that make up the mind of God. By reading, studying, absorbing, interpreting, this strand of consonants, the Jew becomes part of the corporate body where the mind of God, contained in the DNA strand that is the Torah text, finds its living existence. Similarly, 1 Corinthians 2:16 goes so far as to claim that the Christian possesses the mind of Christ. The Gospel interpretation of the Torah text is fancied the "mind of Christ" such that the individual Christian living in his physical body is just one carrier, one cell, of the larger body (the Church) where the "mind" of Christ exists.

The memes being selected through Judaism, and Christianity, are undergoing a parallel evolutionary process leading up to the epiphany of God associated with the "end times," the "rapture" (or resurrection of the Body of Christ), which parallels the Jewish expectations for the unveiling of Messiah as the instigator of the kingdom of God on earth. ------In a sense similar to how genes separate living organisms into biological "species," memes likewise separate human beings into three distinct species of mind, each separated by the DNA forming the memetic information unique to each species. We thus have three distinct mind-species: the Jew, the Christian, and the Atheist. ------All further differentiation of the memes into various classes are in fact subsets of these three distinct species.


John

[center]ד׳

חכמה עצה דעת רוחויר�תד׳וגבורהובינה
רוח
רוח
רוח
×—
ו
ט
ר

×’ ×– ×¢

[/center]

User avatar
dianaiad
Site Supporter
Posts: 10220
Joined: Sun Oct 24, 2010 12:30 pm
Location: Southern California

Post #2

Post by dianaiad »

Moderator Action

No debate topic.

Moved to Random Ramblings. Please review the Rules and Tips on starting a debate topic.

Post Reply