I will never give up asking questions nor relinquish the passion for asking them again and again. Apathy - the true opposite of every human emotion - is a walking death.

A life must be approached with passion, with intelligence and with empathy - in that precise order. Our passions are what make us ask incessantly and our asking engenders deeper passions. Personally forming a question is the surest sign you are more than alive - you are living.

If there are truly zombies in our world, they are those who are infested with apathy, they are those who rarely or never ask questions.

The only distinction between "body" and "mind" is the same as that between anatomy and physiology - "body" is the physical substance, "mind" is at least one of the characteristic functions of that substance, and certainly a major one. "Mind" is what the "body" does. One might say "body" is a noun, "mind" is a verb. Mind is a fundamental function of the body, albeit an extremely complex one. A clock merely assembled is a collection of pieces held together. Without being wound, the clock does nothing. Wind the clock and it "comes alive" thus allowing the marking of time. Telling time is the function of the collected and assembled pieces of the clock when they are operating together. "Clock" is the body, "marking time" is the mind. The clock, of course, as complex as some clocks can be, has nowhere near the complexity of a human being, however, the analogy is good. The clock isn't built to wind itself when need be. Humans can do this - sleep, water, food, exercise, etc. to remain functioning. We ought not let the complexity of our functioning lead us to think we are merely a shell inhabited by something else. In other words, we are not a symbiosis of "mind" and "body" - "mind" is the function of body. They are inseparable and, in fact, they are not "they": they are one.

As might be obvious, I dismiss the mind/body dichotomy. It comes as no surprise that what happens to body has an effect on "mind" and what is happening in "mind" affects the entire person. We are not "mind" and "body", we are each a human being, complex, integrated, dynamic and holistic. We aren't simply an assemblage of parts - like the clock. Science is still studying the relationships, however, as I understand it, science has not as yet found reason to treat "mind" and "body" as separate identifiable entities, i.e. "mind" residing or trapped within "body". As I understand it, the functions we laymen typically identify with mind such as "memory" and "thinking" are as much function of the other "parts" of the body as they are the brain. One cannot alter one's chemistry without affecting "body" and "mind" - the organism and its functioning. Do we remember with our muscles, our feet, our hands? Do we think with our stomachs? Without indulging the complex details of explanation here, suffice to say evidence points to a "yes", at least partially. This comes as no surprise to me and quite likely is of no surprise to many others, however, I understand it is no small irritation to many who absolutely need to believe in the notion of a "soul" or an alleged "entity" trapped in one's material body needing only to be "set free".

It's a fanciful notion but observation and reason still offer no other conclusion but that "soul" is a simplistic and incorrect understanding of "mind" as a fundamental function of the whole human being.