MIND and REALITY

 MIND and REALITY -

Consider a blank paper. There is no line on it (it's blank). Now paint half of it with blue. Now we have a line - the one at the interface of the blue and white patches. Extending this argument, one can say that even on a blank paper, there is a line of the same colour as that of the paper. It's just that we cannot see it. Note that no one is saying that there is a line DRAWN by someone on that blank paper, but the line exists. Going by that argument even further, there is everything that's possibly writable, written on a blank paper, just that it is not detectable by a human being.

When the visual sensation throughout is the same, everything possible "exists" in it.

Is such a thing real, or only in the mind? When there is a mere thought in the mind (without being coupled with any 'action'), there is still a chemical and electrical flow in the brain which makes it a reality, but we cannot detect it. And we say for such things - "it is there only in the mind, not in reality". Extending this fully, we can say that a mind, as a whole, is what a brain does, which cannot be detected by human beings. (Ref : I have used Minsky's definition of the mind here - "minds are all what brains do")