I think you're going off the deep end here. In reality, the very minute delay that occurs between origination and termination of nerve impulses (even to the end of the extremities) is not enough to introduce any kind of perceptible disconnection between the body and the mind. Maybe some Zen masters are able to go that far, but we're talking 80 milliseconds here at most.
We perceive this delay all the time as humans. From when you turn on a hot faucet to where the signals from your fingers telling you to pull away is always a tad late. This is because the brain can't know the water is too hot until the nerves have told it so. We don't usually get burned because the delay isn't that significant but we do sometimes get burned. Especially if the faucet was turned on very recently.
A mosquito will almost always sting you before you can react to it. It isn't that we aren't fast enough to swat it. It's because by the time the nerve signal has reached our brain, the mosquito has gotten what it needed. All we can do is smash it on our arm.
Despite this delay, the whole nervous system is wired in a way to produce a cohesive, integrated picture of reality so that you don't notice the lag. IOW, your brain doesn't want you to know that there was any kind of latency at all. Obviously, we evolved this way for a reason, although I don't care to speculate why atm.
This is more baseless assertion. We notice these delays all the time. Yes, they absolutely do play a role in our development. The nervous system works as good as it can possibly work but distance is still distance. So long as there is distance there is time and with time, a different perception of what is versus what was.
No, I don't think I'm overthinking this. I find it to be pretty simple and observable in the world.
I've already made clear my stance that the body and mind do not develop separately. The whole thing grows as one. Therefore, each psychological orientation (type) will have a relatively narrow bell curve in terms of its associated physical constitution, and there are only 7 different ones of those.
You are throwing out strawmen again. I never said the mind and body develop separately. ALL things loosely entwined develop relatively close. From mind to body, to mate and sibling to children and pets. We're all connected in ways that make proper sense. A pet will sometimes inherit the behavior of its owner and children obviously inherit the behavior of their parents. For the sake of giving this phenomenon a label we can call it psychological gravity.
My point to you is that as distance grows, so does time. The distance between mind and body make it so that the form appears as one to something much further away. Like one human peering at another human. And then even further one human peering at a bird in the sky. Distance separates us so we're all effectively in the same boat. We're set against what is to live in the what was. The degree of which is ruled by distance.
No offense, but you know not of what you speak. Both my parents are physicians. I'm well-acquainted with the capabilities of modern medicine. I've also read volumes on Ayurveda/Chinese Medicine and consulted with numerous physicians in both those disciplines. You are suffering from chronocentrism. They knew more about certain things back then than we do now. Science is actually playing catch-up when it comes to preventive medicine. Also why do you automatically assume that they did not know that brain activity continues for 3-4 minutes after death? You really think near-death experiences (NDE) are unique to our time? You don't need a fancy piece of tech to figure this out.
That's great but I don't see what any of that has to do with acceptance of the most obvious here. 5,000 years ago they did not know that the brain held so much significance in the body. That is why Egyptians left the heart in the body but pulled out the brains and chucked them aside. The reason is that they believed memory resided in the heart, not the brain.
This is getting awfully metaphysical...If the conflict occurs in the mind, and you observe that conflict, can it really be said that you live in the mind but not the body? IOW, does your consciousness favor the mind over the body? I don't think it does, but it is capable of perceiving the origin of sensory stimuli vs. thought vs. emotion. That's how you know that the "upset stomach" feeling comes from the stomach and isn't a thought...LOL
The body is something we make use of, as a puppeteer. It is as close to us as anything will get in our natural lives. So of course we make use of it. Much like we would a pair of dentures if needed or a hearing aid.
We happen to be our brains. The heart while great has been proven to be a replaceable component of our puppet. Though the brain, the center of who we are, will likely never see the same fate.
The body heavily influences our conscious thought. For the reason of proximity. Think about this. What if your body was 20 miles away? Would you get more sensory input from it or from the eyes and ears attached to your brain? There would be a greater distance involved with your body. So naturally you would grow closer to whatever is in closer proximity and attempt to puppeteer that instead.
It isn't that the body has higher level reasoning or anything like that. It is simply a device we use to associate to the what was. We're never truly in the what is because of proximity. But that isn't really important here. What's important is to note that the mind and body are separate things.
Only b/c you haven't had enough time to really investigate this for yourself.
That's possible but I feel safe to assume an overweight INTP exists. Especially so with the given cultural influences and wealth of humankind.
You didn't read till the very end where I posted pictures.
I did actually. The pictures were of people like John Goodman ( one of my favorite actors ). Again, I don't see what ear position has to do with it. My own ears are about where his are and I've been an ecto my entire life.
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