Introduction to The Map of the Mind

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What is the mind? To be perfectly accurate, we would need to completely avoid speaking about it in purely naturalistic terms and speak about it from the perspective of both nowlos and experience. Let us start by disregarding the many assumptions that we have been trained to accept – those concepts about the brain in the physical world accepting stimuli from the body, hands, eyes, etcetera and being processed by cerebral cortex, etcetera. I specifically refer to what biology has taught us (In other words, disregard the idea that the mind is in the brain). While we may return to those ideas, they aren’t necessary, in my opinion, for conceiving of a kind of simplistic “mind map” that describes how we accept information, form ideas, and ultimately possess nowlos. However, we will need to accept the assumption that the normal mind has remained constant, preferably for all time, despite the fact that it could have changed significantly, making all of these analyses potentially and seriously invalid.

This section deals with the process of ideas, not with the exact components of the mind itself, which may be referenced more as ambiguous facilities.

The accuracy of these analyses hinges on many assumptions I won’t discuss, but the key assumptions that are fundamental are those of the normal mind – because it means these concepts apply to all people possessing this normal mind (allowing me to use the word “we” in an accurate sense) – as well as nowlos, the mental capacity to produce or modify ideas and “information”, and the final transfer of the information to the “soul” (more specifically, the final point of consciousness, whereat nowlos resides).

Much of this section will be based on the concept of the nebulous idea definition, which I believe is the most applicable concept of ideas even if it is not inclusive of all types of ideas.

NOTE: If you are a follower of this blog, I apologize, I have a difficult time finishing things, much less complicated philosophy. All of these ideas about everything are so connected in my mind that it’s like trying to explain a spider web in terms of vertices, beginning at mess of points where the flies were tied up.