The Machinery of the Body
How could one benefit from conceptualizing the physical body as a machine?
The Resilient Spirit
What is a spirit, and what makes it resilient? Ask yourself before diving further in here; given your current understanding of what a spirit is, what does resilience look like from that perspective? And what benefits can be gleaned from having a resilient spirit?
The Resilient Body
What makes a body resilient, or what characteristics does an otherwise “resilient” body possess? Is it the ability to lift hundreds of pounds? How about the ability to go days without food? Or the ability to be more or less unperturbed whether it’s in a 120 C sauna or a bathtub filled with 1 C water?
The first answer that comes to mind is: It depends.
The Resilient Brain
At first glance, a brain looks like a rather non-resilient organ. Its jelly-like consistency sloshes about in a thin veneer of thin protective sheets, suspended in a fluid, all encapsulated within a boney container lined with sharp protrusions and uneven ridges for it to bump into. Given it’s squishy nature, you certainly wouldn’t be the first to think “nothing about this organ seems resilient in the slightest”.
But like many other things in life, all it takes is a little bit of interest and understanding to suspend judgements and change your mind (or brain).
Symmetry of Mind
What do you get when you mix a ferocious lion, a terrified mouse, and millions of years of evolution? The human brain!