What is "Mind?"

We are in an age that assumes the narrowing trends of specialization to be logical, natural, and desirable. Consequently, society expects all earnestly responsible communication to be crisply brief. Advancing science has now discovered that all the known cases of biological extinction have been caused by overspecialization, whose concentration of only selected genes sacrifices general adaptability. Thus the specialist’s brief for pinpointing brevity is dubious. In the meantime, humanity has been deprived of comprehensive understanding. Specialization has bred feelings of isolation, futility, and confusion in individuals. It has also resulted in the individual’s leaving responsibility for thinking and social action to others. Specialization breeds biases that ultimately aggregate as international and ideological discord, which in turn leads to war.

So long as mathematicians can impose up-and-down semantics upon students while trafficking personally in the non-up-and-down advantages of their concise statements, they can impose upon the ignorance of man a monopoly of access to accurate processing of information and can fool even themselves by thought habits governing the becoming behavior of professional specialists, by disclaiming the necessity of, or responsibility for, comprehensive adjustment of the a priori thought to total reality of universal principles. The everywhere-relative velocities and momentums of interactions, of energetic phenomena of universe, are central to the preoccupations and realizations of the comprehensive designer. The concept of relativity involves high frequency of re-established awareness, and progressively integrating consideration of the respective, and also integrated dynamic complexities of the moving and transforming frame of reference and of the integrated dynamic complexities of the observed, as well as of the series of integrated sub-dynamic complexities, in respect to each of the major categories of the relatively moving frames of reference, of the observer and the observed. It also involves constant reference of all the reciprocating sub-sets to the comprehensive totality of non-simultaneous universe, from which naught may be lost.

One of the interesting biographical notes about Fuller was his establishing of a daily
requirement for getting by on only 3-4 hours of sleep, sometimes less. He purportedly did this
by taking numerous small naps of 20 minutes throughout the day, as well as a somewhat
longer "core sleep". This approach at maximizing his waking time on Earth served him quite
well until advanced age overtook him. Of course today these practices are generally known as
"polyphasic sleep"

Jstan: Are you not describing yourself here? Everyone defines themselves thusly.

Getting folks and resources together is immensely difficult and seems to require very special people who can see bigger views than narrow disciplinary orientations found in expertise. Those who seem to succeed at it seem to have a much greater sense of who and what they are

...and not evil or bent on ideas which may be harmful to others

Healje, I'd be interested in hearing by what process you arrive at your pronouncements about meditation and no-thing and what you mean by those terms. My sense of it is you are guessing all across the board because your wonky descriptions sound a little like a porker talking about ball room dancing. There's a noise, but it has nothing whatsoever to do with the phenomenon described. If you were to say, "There are no measurements nor yet figures to be derived from meditation itself," but applying worlds like "wisdom" to the equation moves you drift into Porkey's terrain - we can easily see why.

NO MASS

Tvash: Attempting to squeeze such concepts into simple analogies our five senses can experience doesnt get one very far, really.

Laughter is the corrective force which prevents us from becoming cranks.
~Henri Bergson