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[chloebware]

Bringing my step daughter home Friday...I knew they wouldn't keep her....assholes!

[IxCimi]

The "thinker" dies? Who, or what is the thinker? Who, or what is the thought!?

You think I am toying with you. I am not.

Your view is either purely mechanistic, or insists mind is the result of an organic process. Either being incorrect.

That is not the view of the sagest of the ancients.

They would suggest mind is loosely tied to, but apart and separate from the material form by all but the five senses. (Nama Rupa)

Mind is in no way latent to form. It more is tied to "breath",... such as when God supposedly breathed life in to the forms of clay. This is why most forms of meditative studies include a breathing practice, but Pranayama rather than Pranayana. Also consider that Prana and Prajna are related words.

"Once upon a time, I, Zhuangzi, dreamt I was a butterfly, fluttering hither and thither, to all intents and purposes a butterfly. I was conscious only of my happiness as a butterfly, unaware that I was Zhuangzi. Soon I awakened, and there I was, veritably myself again. Now I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly, dreaming I am a man. Between a man and a butterfly there is necessarily a distinction. The transition is called the transformation of material things."
~ Zhuangzi