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IF we were to define the definition of “spirit”
Index note spirit = collection of attainable thought-states; "right spirit" = mood; consciousness as a force like gravity
We are thinking beings, so called human beings, us. We know that we exist as we experience the world around us and we think on it, we generate ideas that attain states in say conceptually constructed space of all existing consciousness. A spirit is a certain way or collection or all the thinking or thoughts or ideas a being can attain, at least this can be some form of explainable realistic definition of it.
You think, you make a collection of ideas and call it ‘a way’, a way of doing things. This way of doing things is developed naturally through thinking or acquiring through learning. Sometimes, thinking on small learned things to construct a bigger idea is easy, by self thinking on ideas. Many small ideas together make a one big idea through process of thinking (or small elements and some processing of it leads to) which can be incomprehensible to be learned straightaway with existing form of communication devoid of misunderstanding. A ‘spirit’ as a collection of all those attainable states, carries the idea of all those thoughts and power of its ideas is felt with it. But by saying idea, its not merely an idea, but a kind of idea and is valuable.
We learn something new, we create that spirit. We read texts from the past, we bring that past spirit into our existence, simply through conscious feeling, which exists in our heads, and we exist in this universe, hence, we bring up that idea into existence, by simply exposed to it. We let our mind get driven by that spiritual information to attain those states that were encoded, or say were alive in some form which flowed into a being. And, if a certain piece of information does not excite the consciousness to bring it into existence, it is ineffective to become real in the head or the mind or the brain, (since as per the definition it did not effect into reality).
Such as the effect of that information, may be audio-video, i.e. a movie, or real world experience, brings out the feelings of such circumstance in the watching or experiencing person (i.e. the observing experi). So we may feel things that are not really there (but they are real in the head, in the consci experi). As an example, say of a ghost. It scares most people, which is the real fear in the brain, which exists as true conscious experi existing in the universe, but by thinking rationallization of thoughts and the world around us, that experi is suppressed or does not take place, hence making a difference in scared and not scared being, this is irrespective of the surroundings. One may in future bring out emotion stimulator, which in its some form exist today as form of information or substances which effect brain etc.
Being in the ‘right spirit’ is important for say working on something. The spirit of it guides it making it look effortless and is only way to being productive while involved as conscious entities that require focus and attention to do work. This is often can be just called ‘the mood’ of it.
However, the most useful part of understanding the spirit, is in its ‘nature beyond usual’. Which is to say, the stuff that excites most people, out of normal daily lives which can be boring at par. Thinking about or reading vast history and civilization brings out the spirit of it, written or made in past, and so it does have a life of its own existence. For e.g. spirit of human, a spirit of plant, spirit of Earth, etc.
That being said, the spirit pushes around and forward, forcing on to a new day, getting days go by and live through it.
The thing is, it is more universal than just humans, and humans merely attain the states of it, wonder if a dog or cat does. As, advanced and intelligent species in our own terms, for now being human, I can make such a claim about humans, and have the audacity to know about it.
You are not only your physical form, but the mental form that grows within, as a metaphysical beings. Humans are metaphysical beings. Physics describe the laws of physical world. What are metaphysical laws? would it be called science? Would you call a computer complex enough as alive? as we know we are complex physical systems.. explaining everything physically, but always lacking the explanation between physical and meta, always taken for granted, maybe to a point where I can accept consci is like any other force like gravity, simply existing without any interrogation of how it exists. Gravity exists through mass, but that does not explain how it is created through mass, its like this one thing that comes together as we call ‘mass’ and ‘gravity’. Perhaps, and I think, conscious is such as well. It is there in the brain through its activity, somehow, and rationally flowing electrical heavy ions may contribute it as thats what an active brain is. However deep I think, I always wonder about hearing of sound, and seeing of light. But of course, seeing sound and hearing light is also there, when connections are interchanged, and how does sound is actually heard and vision is actually seen on neuronal level, perhaps its the entire structure (so called consciousness) is collectively associated together to its physical processes in this world. However, the influence of consciousness as force on matter cannot be ruled out. Much like electric field affect electric charge, conscious force can affect through electromagnetic (or whatever it links through to physical world) to physical matter governing processes.
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