How is the human mind similar to a fire??
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The human mind is similar to a fire in that if it is not stoked with embers of information from time to time that the mind has to process, the fire dies out.
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Here is the start of one campfire story...\n\nYears ago, when I was your age, I endured a night of terror from which I will never completely recover. To this day, certain sounds, smells, and sights chill me to the bone.\n... check out the website for the full story.
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From the mind of an unknown HUMAN!!!
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I don't think that fire would properly have a volume since it is a form of energy. Energy is measured differently than physical mass, usually by intesity of energy present. Fire is measured by it's intensity of heat and combustion.
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The mind is the human consciousness that originates in the brain and is manifested especially in thought, perception, emotion, will, memory, and imagination. \n\nThe collective conscious and unconscious processes in a sentient organism that direct and influence mental and physical behavior. \n\nThe principle of intelligence; the spirit of consciousness regarded as an aspect of reality. \n\nThe faculty of thinking, reasoning, and applying knowledge: Follow your mind, not your heart. \n\nA person of great mental ability: the great minds of the century. \n\na. Individual consciousness, memory, or recollection: I'll bear the problem in mind. b. A person or group that embodies certain mental qualities: the medical mind; the public mind. c. The thought processes characteristic of a person or group; psychological makeup: the criminal mind. \n\nOpinion or sentiment: He changed his mind when he heard all the facts. \n\nDesire or inclination: She had a mind to spend her vacation in the desert. \n\nFocus of thought; attention: I can't keep my mind on work. \n\nA healthy mental state; sanity: losing one's mind.
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It is hard to compare. An interesting analysis of the human brain is to figure out how many possible ways it can wire itself. The math behind this is called factorial math. It is denote by n! 1! = 1, 2!=2, 3!=6, 4!=24, 5!=120, 6!=720, from there it starts going up rapidly 20!=2.4*10^18. This means that if you had a brain with 20 neurons it could be wired a total of 2.4*10^18 different ways. 20,000 neurons would have 1.8192 E 77337 possibilities. 20,000,000 neurons 2.1126 E 137334714 possibilities. 1 billion neurons 9.9045 E 8565705522 possibilities. We have somewhere in the range of 100 billion neurons and I have not found a calculator to calculate 100,000,000,000!, but it would be indeed a very large number. Certainly there is more possible ways to wire a human brain, in theory, than there are atoms in the observable Universe. Now how does that correlate to memory, I don't know. It does give an idea of just how complicated the human brain's wiring schematic might look,and how much different one brains wiring diagram might look than someone else.\n\n I personally think that the biological brain is not very efficient at remembering details. Humans do have some ability to remember and manipulate details as do some other animals, but all of us animals are bad at it, but computers are very good at it. It is very neurologically expensive, I think, to remember a specific detail. A brain is very good at seeing patterns and remembering relationships and generalities.
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spontaneous human combustion\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spontaneous_human_combustion
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States are solid, liquid, gas and plasma...there is no fire state.  Fire is a chemical reaction that occurs when an object is going from one state to another.  A physical reaction is like the melting of ice...it goes from a solid state to a liquid state.  Fire actually changes the chemical makeup of a substance, therefore it is a chemical reaction.\n\nAnd it definitely does NOT have "plasma in it"!  Plasma is extremely rare on earth.
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Absolutely, its a hormone/chemical thing like most living things experience. What seperates us though is our ability to reason and think through the consequences of our actions to avoid hurting not only others but ourselves.
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Yes.  The human mind is just an incredibly complex computer which can manufacture it's own connections.  All we need to do is get the software and hardware sides of our current technology up to the level of our brains and beyond...  Easier said than done, I know.
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I agree. Every single emotion; every single scenario imaginable; both sides of the extreme and what lies in between will occur in this universe. In my opinion, anything is possible in this universe…ANYTHING! And I don’t think this universe has meaning without human ‘observation / awareness’ (consult ‘the observer effect’ in quantum physics + my question about the sound of tree falling in the forest).
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Take a look at the pyrotechnics chapter of this side.\n\nhttp://www.vk2zay.net/\n\nCareful: it is neither simple nor without danger.
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It isn't but there are some particles in the atmosphere that are flamable, but they are so widly spaced you won't even see a fireball, Anyways oxygen has a special chemical compound that feeds fire, but thats all, its not "flamable" its just food for fire.
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Nearly all of the fires that we see are red, both because we rarely see anything heated to very high temperatures and because of the properties of carbon and its molecules. Meanwhile, the molecular properties of water make it bluish-green. Since these are the hot/cold things we most often see, our minds probably associate hot and cold with them.\n\nOur bodies might also bias us toward thinking red is hot and blue is cold. When we get warm, more blood flows to our skin in an effort to cool us. The result is that our skin looks red. If we are cold, the body tries to conserve heat by shunting blood away from our skin, giving out skin a bluish tinge.
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Philosophy:\nWater is the elixir of life.\nWhile Fire is the begining (of pain & struggle).\n\nScience:\nFor Fire to happen u need Source, Fuel and Heat as described in a Fire triangle.\nWater removes the heat whereby the triangle is incomplete and Fire is extinguished.
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Reflexes are pure nerve’s response! If you touch a flame with a finger you’ll immediately put it away as the result of just your nervous system response keeping homeostasis of your hand
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That's a philosophical question.  In fact, it's probably one of the top-ten fundamental questions of philosophy that people have been pondering for millenia.  \n\nMy take on it is, it's like asking if a story is a physical object.  The media that it is stored on is certainly physical (a book, a cd, a neural network in a storyteller's mind...) but the story ITSELF is an abstract noun; something much less tangible.  \n\nI would say the same of the mind.  The mind certainly exists on a physical media, but the term "mind" also implies the intangible aspects of a set of neural networks... what it represents and means to that person, and to other people.  Mind is to brain as story is to book.