Should the brain of a human with so many  faculties burried and become dust then what is the purpose of living
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One would hope that while living that person exercises this faculty of a brain and contribute to the betterment of mankind in some form or fashion, thereby leaving a legacy of sorts on the world. Be it love to your fellow man, peace to a neighbor or something as spectacular as an invention. There are those that came before us and have gone but left many good things for mankind. In essence the greatest form of living is giving. The brain is certainly capable of making the time alotted on earth 'purposeful' indeed.
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It goes to the brain.  That's why some people are called "shitt for brains" not because they're stupid, they're just constipated.
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Highest form of mind doesn't think. Thinking (information processing) is for finite minds.
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The part of the body that are use more often, become more complex, in the same manner, part of the body that are less useful to survival will eventually be select against (It waste energy without generating enough benefit). Therefore mother nature tell us that, (Darwin's natural selection) we only have what we need. If we use this as an argument. We can assume that all animals today would use 100% of the brain, those who had use less than that would have been eliminated through the course of history. Unless it was beneficial to their survival, in that case, their brain will have "de-evolve" to maintain a lower energy consuming. The process of de-evolving would led them to use 100% of their brain...
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The function of optimizing neural paths in the brain is simply to reduce workload on the brain when we need it. When a lot of things happen at once and we need to take a quick and good action, you don't want too much of the brain to be occupied with other things. So it's logical to assume that it optimizes itself. We use a lot more of the brain when we learn new things, and learning in itself increases intellect. The brain gets better at optimizing, but also at using learning processes and adapting view points, or using the body. I would think that the statement merely talks about normal activity not use.
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Humanity has developed over many lifetimes; first resembling beasts, with desires only for food, family, sex and shelter; then developing through stages of wealth, power, honor and knowledge.\n\nAt the first stage of development, desires for food, family, sex and shelter are a person’s only desires. Even a totally isolated individual has these desires and tries to fulfill them. Desires conditioned by society’s influence (desires for wealth, power and honor) emerge at the next stage.\n\nAfterwards, the desire for knowledge appears. Sciences flourish as we set out to discover where everything comes from, to find our roots. This desire for knowledge, however, still only resides within the framework of our world.\n\nOnly at the next stage does a human being desire to know the real source, one’s essence—the meaning of life. “Where do I come from?” “Who am I?” “What am I?” These questions cause discomfort and trouble a person.\n\nHuman beings are naturally egoistic. All of our desires are self-motivated and crave fulfillment. They pressure us, literally controlling our every move. The height of egoism in our world is the desire to be filled with knowledge about something above us.\n\nWhat is the source of desires and how do they appear? The source of desires is suffering. Passing from one type of desire to another happens only under the influence of suffering. If I am in a balanced state, then I feel comfortable and everything is just fine. A new desire then appears, and I feel that something is missing. Now I want to experience something new, so I start trying to fulfill this desire…and this process keeps repeating itself. In other words, I am always running after new pleasures.\n\nWe are born on this planet, we live and we die trying to satisfy our countless desires. Only after many lives do we reach the state when one desire is all that remains: the desire to attain our source, the meaning of our lives. Once this final, ultimate desire appears, everything else seems unnecessary and meaningless. A person gets depressed, feeling emotionally and spiritually empty, as if nothing in this world can bring happiness. Life seems pointless and lacking something real…“What is the purpose of my life?” “Why do I exist?” These are the questions that bring people to Kabbalah.\n\nhttp://www.kabbalah.info/
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The mind is its own place, and in itself\nCan make a heav'n of hell, a hell of heav'n.\n(What matter where, if I be still the same.....)
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hmmmm now your getting into ethics...to create any life form that is unaware of itself and designed to simply  serve us sounds more like slavery.. any live   being would have to have some type of brain/ intelligence if only to just carry out its assignments...hence it would be capable of feelings/ pain/   joy / hunger etc..... we as humans I would hope are too humane to   engineer and enslave such a being...so   I would have to choose a metal robot  , though personally I would choose neither...since either would be one more step in  removing the  satisfaction of having done your own work/  and completed your own project...
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To give a rationally justified answer to this question, we first need to address the issue of souls.\n\nWhat exactly do you think a soul is?  What properties does it have?  What part of 'you' resides in the soul? \n\nIf it's postulated that consciousness, or awareness, or sense of self resides in the soul, it's difficult to see how this can be reconciled with the complete oblivion which accompanies general anaesthesia.  How could a straightforward chemical,  injected into the bloodstream, anaesthetise a soul so that it effectively ceases to exist during this time?  If consciousness, in the form of a soul, were some kind of supernatural faculty, it would seem implausible that it could be completely disabled by a chemical. \n\nHow about some of the other things which we regard as essential parts of what makes a person what they are?  How about love, compassion, reason, empathy, memory, conscious thought, character, 'spirituality' and so on? Well, there is really no plausible doubt that all these things are properties of the physical brain - We can alter all of these properties very simply with alcohol or other drugs, and observe how they change in people who have suffered significant brain damage.  Previously placid people become uncontrollably violent, intelligent people become imbeciles, and so on.  Stimulate the brain artificially, and the subject reports corresponding mental activity, e.g. 'religious experiences'.  We can see from brain research that all these things - thought, emotion, sensation, character traits and so on - are correlated with activity in the brain, and some things can be identified with specific areas of the brain. \n\nSo, if all these faculties and characteristics of what we regard as the 'person' reside in the physical brain, as seems to be undeniably the case, and they all cease when the person dies, then what is left to be attributed to a 'soul'?  As far as I can ascertain:  Nothing. If there is no part of us that can continue after death, then there is no 'afterlife'... and if there is no afterlife, then most of religion is null and void.
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The limbic system of your brain has corrupted your worldview, but that's to be expected in a very insecure universe.  People who are enlightened use their cerebral cortex to look for the creative side of life and for happiness here on earth during the short sojourn between the random event of birth and the random nothingness of death.
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It is the seat of the intellect, not an intellectual organ.  All cognition (thought, logic, creativity, etc) is initiated in the brain.
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Every living being has a unique purpose for which he/she/it was made.  You will be able to understand it only if you live your life to the full..\nSo, stop worrying and if at you haven't started yet... start now.. Start living. \nPlease Don't exist.
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Life is merely a product of matter, and the purpose of matter is accretion and entropy. That is objective. We cannot answer the subjective. Such as, what is YOUR purpose? Only the individual subject can answer that. We bang and we crunch, we bang and we crunch and that is all us mere stardust will ever do. Dance in the cataclysm, and marvel at what we don't understand. If there is any other purpose to life, at least intelligent life, it is to sit and ponder, "What is the purpose of life?
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No, your soul is a metaphysical construct.  Being thus it cannot be assigned to the synaptic functions in the brain.
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We have no answer to this question of why some people have to have mental or physical illness.\nMaybe they can inspire us, rather than bother us because they continue.\nMany normal people just give up on life, and many people struggle to live through each day.\nThe design of this earth and the lives here are not our own.\nSt. Paul said that here we see things through a glass darkly, but in the next life, we will see clearly.\n\nIt's good that you care.
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We need to distinguish between Mind and Soul.  The mind is indeed a function of the brain, and the Soul is mostly indistinguishable from it while the brain is functioning.  We therefore leave open the question of whether the Soul is something quite apart, which can exist without the physical "housing" of the brain.  I personally think it is something different, and does exist apart from any physical structure, but my reasons are all spiritual/religious, and not in the least scientific.  The most scientific analogy is an idea or a concept, perhaps an archetype.  They clearly exist outside of any physical structure, and I believe the soul does, too.  My real question is whether it is an individual soul, and therefore there are billions of them, or whether we share souls at a higher dimension/level than we normally perceive.  The jury is still out on that one.
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Really, live life to the fullest. There are way too many things to do, knowledge to acquire, skills to absorb for anyone to be bored. You just need to open your eyes wider.