Thursday, October 14, 2010

What is a person?

 
A person is a chemical body inhabited by a soul. We all have our own unique minds inside our brains that are affected by memory, biochemicals, and the environment. A person has their own qualities, body and inspirations. We seek satisfaction and improvement with ourselves and the material world surrounding us, which generates our needs, wants and goals. 

A person has emotions, reactions and reasons for their actions: "In humans, emotion fundamentally involves 'physiological arousal, expressive behaviors, conscious experience,' " (Wikipedia). We can get varying illnesses, physical or mental. A person has interests and hunger for certain things such as public gossip, money, literature, attention, company and conversation, entertainment, flavors, addictions and rules. 

I believe in idealism, that we have a conscious mind, and our over-thinking is what creates the illusions around us, such as materialism. However, I would like to believe a person is just a tiny piece of mould on a peach falling out of a tree. 

MASLOW HIERARCHY OF NEEDS
MIND OVER MATTER (youtube link)

WIKI- EMOTION
WIKI- CONSCIOUSNESS
PICTURES:
THE REPRESENTATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS IN THE 17TH CENTURY BY ROBERT FUDD

HIERARCHY OF NEEDS BY MASLOW