ALABADO, LUCKY LYN S.

BS-IME SM 11400358

MARCH 10, 2015

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1) Is The Mind Independent From And Irreducible To The Body?

Our minds are a powerful component in our body. It controls how we
move, what we do and how we act on different situations. Our mind, as I
believe, is not independent to the body. We can think of actions without
actually doing it. Our imaginations can run miles away from our actual
situation, we can create scenarios in our heads of the things that we want
to accomplish and the places we want to go. Although the actions we can
pull of is dependent on our bodies, if we can push it to do what our minds
ask it to do. We cant expect our bodies to stretch out the way we want it
to, it can only go as far as it can even it our minds would like to believe
that it can go further. Therefore we put a limit to how we think depending
on the capability of our bodies, even with this condition, our minds are still
very much independent to the body because it can continuously discover
and re-discover things that the body has yet to know or feel.
Our body is directly involved with our minds as much as our minds are
connected to the body. Whatever thoughts we have, we have our bodies
to execute the actions. Then again, our minds are a much powerful
element of the two. We can go as far as we would want with how we think
but our actions and our bodies can only stretch up to its limit.
2) Does Science Give Us The Truth?
Science gives us the truth about a lot of things that are existent in this
world. For example, science provides details and information on what
people are made of, the composition of things, how things expand and
grow. It provides truth in a sense that it goes into detail about the
processes that an organism undergoes in order to develop. It makes use of
the scientific facts, theories and laws to further explain why things are the
way they are. This has been our basis for the truth about things that are
explainable because of their physical state. We see objects and try to
experiment and discover how they were put together. We witness people,
animals and plants grow and we observe the behavior from the initial
phase to the final stage of their maturity. These are all brought to clarity of
the mind via science and all its facts and definitions.
Though in this life there are things that science cannot prove, this is where
religion comes in. Although the creation of man could be explained
through the process of conception, science can only go so far as having an
existent man and woman to create a child, whereas in religion, more
specifically in the teachings of the catholic church, we were told that man
was created from nothing and there is this superior being above us that
made all of the earth, the sky, day and night, the animals and us human
beings. This belief differs depending on what religion one has. Our faith
depends on what we put our hearts and minds into believing and
therefore the truth about existence and creation differs from one religion
to the other. On the other hand, scientific facts do not depend on such.
Science is more of a general and standard understanding of things. It has

been our basis of knowing and learning about all these processes and
compositions of things. In conclusion, science does provide the truth but
the truth is not limited to science alone.