Is the mind just a repository of past impressions?

Amswer Podcast

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Is the mind just a repository of past impressions? Yes but the repository we consider it normally to be inactive, it is just something which is there that’s why I will give the example of software program the program is also unconscious but the program has by its own programming it has a functionality, so now the mind is also unconscious, the mind is not conscious but because it keeps functioning in a particular way by its own programming, to understand the mind we often personify it the mind is speaking like this the mind is saying like that so basically in our ordinary discourse also we say the computer is asking, should we shut down? actually the computer is not asking anything there is a prompt coming over there but for a conversational sense we actually say the computer is asking so just as we personify something which is insentient for a conversational purpose so like that we personify the mind, the mind is unconscious but it is not unconscious like gross matter it has, it is unconscious but based on the past choices that we have made it has certain default functionality and the best way to understand it is through the metaphor of a software so it is not living but it is useful to treat it as if it were living as if it were a person, so then we can understand the action and evaluate and respond to its action appropriately does that answer your question? ok