Dear Kong,

Thank you for sharing information about your book on human existence. It looks interesting. So that more people can comment on the chapter you mention, maybe you would like to make the chapter available to us in a PDF?

Warm regards Tina

Dear Dr. Tina, I have made available the chapter. But to best understand it, i wish that you people should read the entire book.

Thanks.

Hello Kong - Thank you - I will come back to you when I have e read it -

Warm regards Tina 

Dear Kong - I have read your chapter. I like your opening line about the body being the tangible component of the human being in this physical world. In this we part from a similar basis. However on several grounds I do not support your whole  thesis especially about the function of the brain, particularly with regards to feeling.  I come from a  different perspective both in my thesis and in my article Experiencing Peace Through Heart-Based Meditation on The Self.  I also feel we have to do experimental work to back up what we say. In the article mentioned I discuss the quality of consciousness to do with one of the levels Arka identifies with the heart  in his Theory of the 6 Mian Levels of Consciousness-  I do feel the thinking mind (which we associate with the brain)  exists but this for me this is only a tiny part of consciousness. But we can only say this with any confidence when we explore our consciousness from the inside out- 

This is consistent with a statement by La Tour and La Tour (2011) who claim:

"Personal experience is of vital importance as it allows us to certify the complexity of our nature and surpass the knowledge that is available in physical reality. Without transcendent experiences, or those that surpass the physical senses and dimension, research will continue to promote misinterpretation, informational gaps, and remain trapped in theoretical conjecture (armchair research) failing to serve its central purpose as a practical instrument for self-orientation and guidance in the evolutionary process. (p. 66) (Lindhard, 2016, p.3) 

Regarding feeling I also think that "the etymology of the English verb "feel" might be one of the reasons why some people might have a problem with relating the verb feel to the heart. In late Old English the verb "to feel" is "to have a mental perception," from Proto-Germanic *foljan (source also of Old Saxon gifolian, Old Frisian fela, Dutch voelen, Old High German vuolen, German fühlen 'to feel,' Old Norse falma 'to grope')" (Online Etymology Dictionary, n.d.a., Feel, para. 1). The translation of the verb to feel into Spanish as sentir avoids this difficulty for Spanish speaking participants as the etymology of this Spanish verb comes through the Latin root sentire which originally meant to listen, but later came to represent all the senses (Etimología de Sentir, n.d., Sentir, translation of para. 1). This later acceptance is related to the etymology of the English verb to "sense": "'to perceive by the senses,' . . .Meaning 'perceive (a fact or situation) not by direct perception' is from 1872" (Online Etymology Dictionary, n.d.b, Sense, para 2). (Lindhard, 2016, p. 187)

I hope this adds some clarity to the issue, I personally feel that the heart plays a much bigger role than most scientists recognise as yet. I talk about this in my thesis.

Warm regards - Tina