Are you a body with a mind or a mind with a body? - Maryam Alimardani

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Our bodies – the physical, biological parts of us — and our minds — the thinking, conscious aspects — have a complicated, tangled relationship. Which one primarily defines you or your self? Are you a body with a mind or a mind with a body? Maryam Alimardani investigates.

Lesson by Maryam Alimardani, directed by Ivana Bošnjak & Thomas Johnson.

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[OMAR-vqyb]

This made me emotional. There is beauty in humanity trying to understand itself.

[lobsterlog]

I came here with a question and now I'm leaving with three.

[kuntakchattopadhyay]

I've an exam literally 2 hours from now... And I'm here dealing with existential crisis

[Jackkenway]

"You don't have a soul. You are a soul, you have a body."

[TheScienceBiome]

The music, animation style and the content of this video resulted in me having a massive existential crisis😧

[GAMINGWITHCHINAR]

Me: Brain is the best organ....

Wait why am I saying this,
Brain : oh, sometimes I become selfish

[eliyamatar]

I questioned things like that when I was a kid until now
I asked myself like how do I know I'm me? Or what makes me, me? If I wasn't born in this body but in a different body will I be the same or think the same?
It's very hard for me to write my questions, it's easier to question them in my brain

[Nefariously_ignorant]

When I felt more like a body with a mind I used to spend more time indulging on desirable things to please my senses. Now that I feel more like a mind in control of a body I do more things to progress in life.

I think perception of this can play a big part in how people choose to live because of what they view, consciously and subconsciously, as being a priority and worth spending time on.

[kronothethird]

Is this the real life?
Is this just fantasy?
Caught in a landslide
No escape from reality

[smoewoe]

oh hello existential crisis nice to see you again

[wrcyisnlta]

"A circle has no beginning." -Luna Lovegood

[aleksandrakim]

At first, right after watching this video, I was quite terrified because I didn’t get a thing. However, after digging into the topic for a while, I’ve worked out something important. Something I’d like to share with the viewers, as it really comes in handy for understanding the concept.
In my view, the idea is that a person is neither a body with a mind nor a mind with a body. A person is a system, where both a mind and a body perform different, but equally significant, functions. Here is why.
Imagine a human as a computer. Speaking computer science (hope you are familiar with a computer structure), our brain is a processor and the body is information input / output means. In other words, your mind is undoubtedly in charge of processing information, which is what we do every day and what we live for (in a way). To be precise, by information I mean our sensations, of course, that we gain from our sense organs. That is the point where our physical bodies play their crucial role. We gain knowledge about everything around us (including ourselves, actually) by listening, watching, touching, sniffing and tasting. Therefore, if not for the sense organs, there would be no information for the brain to work on and no outcoming conclusions made and no knowledge gained and no picture of the world created, no perception and no ourselves, as we know it, after all.
Concluding, a mind does control a body, but it (a mind) wouldn’t be so almighty, if not for a body.

[writerofsorts]

I think about this all the time, oh my goodness.
Am I a brain with a conscience or a conscience with a brain?
Am I a soul with a physical body or a physical body with a soul?
Am I a hotel? Trivago.

[mrss_foster]

But when one is meditating, our body kind of feels like it's not there. It's just our self, our mind travelling, and falling in place. At least, when I meditate deeply I stop feeling my body. And, my mind just calms.

[javamotion]

The wonderful thing about getting older is that this kind of inquiry makes you feel lighter and more free or at least in my case it does. I'm enjoying my 38 years old self. Thank you TED

[firenationfiles]

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[plumpengu]

This video title messed with my mind, I didn't ask for this

[prayaschandnayak]

the vedanta describes the mind as an abstract concept, different from brain which is the physical organ of our body as of 4 levels.
1. buddhi(intellect)
2. manas(memory)
3. ahamkara(identity or the sense of one-ness)
4. chitta(conciousness)

[gabriellesinclair]

Who is the one that hears words in your mind with no sound vibration and who sees images and videos in your head when your eyes are closed and everything is dark? Experiences without senses. What are thoughts?

[owen]

"If we close our eyes in a silent room, the feeling of having a body isn't something we can just imagine away."
It seems like this is quite untrue. You can meditate and let go of the feeling of having a body. You can also daydream/dream the feeling away.
Does anybody else have thoughts on this?