<br /><br />Almost sounds as if sprung right out of a buddhist scripture(e.g. Dhammapada), hehe...<br />Hercule Poirot(The Death on Nile? I'm not sure) said something sounded like "Great Intellects are unanimous."<br /><br />As for pain, say a minor pain, I use the zen trick. I observe the pain working, feel it, then soon it feels as a flow of signal. It's still a pain, but it doesn't bother me.<br /><br />Some of the psychological studies show that human mind is a cooperation of at least two minds(; left and right brains?). That may be more. A part of my mind could stop coworking with the other part and behave like an observer. Perhaps we can separate a small portion of our mind by observing other parts of mind, as much as we can do so by concentrating on other matters, thus making the reserved part the "temporary me" and other parts like the outer world events.<br /><br />in a second thought, our brain is trillions of cells coworking to construct the mind. it could be subdivided into any number not greater than the number of brain cells. at least it might be clustered to form a relatively independent sets of minds, whatever. there're reports of multiple personality, anyway.But the Stoics assert that any anger that lingers from this is your own doing, and that emotion isn't some hydraulic force coming from your lower brain, but is consenting to an impression and opinion about the insult given you.
<br /><br />Almost sounds as if sprung right out of a buddhist scripture(e.g. Dhammapada), hehe...<br />[/quote]<br /><br />Yes, exactly! If you strip away some of the cultural metaphysics (reincarnation for Buddhism, the universe/Logos as an intentional being for the old Stoics), then there is a great deal of similarity between Stoicism and Buddhism. It was this realization that caused me to add Pali and some Buddhist texts to my library.<br /><br />But the Stoics assert that any anger that lingers from this is your own doing, and that emotion isn't some hydraulic force coming from your lower brain, but is consenting to an impression and opinion about the insult given you.
<br /><br />Marvin Minsky's, "Society of the Mind" explores this concept in some depth. Also, for plenty of animals the digestive system runs on its own sub-brain (ganglia) system. I think for insects a lot of interesting sophisticated control ends up out in the periphery, and the brain only coordinates.<br />Some of the psychological studies show that human mind is a cooperation of at least two minds(; left and right brains?). That may be more.
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