My Mind

If you're gonna read this, you have to promise to keep a wide open mind. OK? . . .OK. What is the mind? Whatever it is, I think that it is so huge that we have the capability to make up pictures of the stars in our heads more complex and incredilble than any combination of supercomputers on the planet can make. But it is also so small that it can be written onto our DNA when we are a handful of cells in the womb. We know and are 100% certain of its existance but it will never exist in any physical form. And if you think about it, it was pulled straight out of the blue. Our mothers and fathers are two very different people. They're different sexes, for one thing, for another they think differently, they like different things, have had many different experiences. So you would think that on a basic level, you should come out as almost a clone of them, fused together. But no, we too are very different people from our parents. Which is amazing! Its both their DNA, stuff that cant be re-written. Sure, we have different physical features but thats only as a result of a chemical reaction between our parents sex cells and DNA. Our minds though, our minds are such a mystery. If I had the same parents but was born into a different community, I'd still grow up to be tall and blonde with blue eyes with the same cells as I do now but I'd have a completely different personality. I think the mind is some kind of force or energy, some kind of invisible fog that floats through time and space, whatever you consider to be here and now and that at the moment of conception, a chunk of it settles into our feotus, drawn into it by some strange force. I think its' some kind of fog because when we die, that cant be it for our minds. Our bodies lose the capacity for living but our minds camt just die out and disappear. The experiencences we have had and felt, the memories we have, can they really just dwindle into nothing? If the mind is such a powerful thing, how can it fail to exist? I am stumped on this one.