What is mind and does it really exists in the Human Body?
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the mind should be tied to the brain, although no one can say for sure, since those who lost their brains obviously cannot communicate to us whether or not they can still think O.o there are also people who believe that the mind is tied to part of the soul, within the 21 grams that gets lost at the time of death.
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The brain has an unlimited measureless capacity for storage. With each new fact learned - especially in infancy & early childhood - you get a new wrinkle in your brain. No kidding! Check out brain weights of really supersmart folks like Einstein, you will be surprised! But there is no limit to what your brain can hold & it even takes in things you aren't aware of - all while running your body, as well.
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all but that of the body mind and soul
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Where is the psyche located in the Human body?\n\nMost people agree that the mind is in the brain.
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You are what u think thats why, U think what you are.\n\nSoul: Mind, Intellect and Personality\nEvery soul has three separate faculties which are inherent in all human beings irrespective of place of birth. Just as electrical energy produces warmth, sound or light depending on the device through which it passes, similarly, the energy of consciousness functions through three different but closely connected faculties, referred to respectively by the terms mind, intellect, and personality.\n\nThe Mind\nWith the power of the mind, one imagines, thinks and forms ideas. Thoughts are created in the mind. The thought process is the basis of all emotions, desires and sensations. It is through the minds that, in an instant, thoughts reach anywhere, a memory can be relived and the feeling of happiness or sadness is experienced. The metaphysical mind should not be confused with the heart, the physical organ that maintains blood circulation
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A human being or homo sapien is a species of mammal found on Earth.  It is a primate-like biped with less fur than other primates.\n\nIf by this question you mean 'how do we define a person?' this is a much more complex issue.  Some have suggested that a person is defined by their intelligence but this creates an ethical issues for those born without a brain or with learning difficulties, are these people?  Of course they are.  Others talk of the soul, but where do we find the soul and what exactly is it?  What would  a person be like if they had no soul?  Is it the body, brain or the electrical impulses produced by the brain commonly called the mind that make a person a person?\n\nIt seems as this is a philosophical question, there is no right or wrong answer but it is important to be aware of every angle.
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We need to distinguish between Mind and Soul.  The mind is indeed a function of the brain, and the Soul is mostly indistinguishable from it while the brain is functioning.  We therefore leave open the question of whether the Soul is something quite apart, which can exist without the physical "housing" of the brain.  I personally think it is something different, and does exist apart from any physical structure, but my reasons are all spiritual/religious, and not in the least scientific.  The most scientific analogy is an idea or a concept, perhaps an archetype.  They clearly exist outside of any physical structure, and I believe the soul does, too.  My real question is whether it is an individual soul, and therefore there are billions of them, or whether we share souls at a higher dimension/level than we normally perceive.  The jury is still out on that one.
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"Thoughts" are really a phenomenon of consciousness, and we don't know why we are conscious. Science has shown that the brain knows our "thoughts" before our consciousness does, which makes knowing what a thought is even more complicated.\n\nIt has something to do with our brain, which is a very large complex combination of neurons interacting with each other, and with two separate lobes communicating with each other.
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The human brain. Look at everything around you, it was created by the human brain. Cars, buildings, nuclear weapons, etc. were created by the human brain. Everything that you feel emotionally, all of your passion, motivation, and "spirit" is the direct result of your brain.
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The mind is just like the body.  With the body, you can put good or bad stuff in and you'll get visable results;  if you eat only McDonalds, you'll get fat and unhealthy and if you eat fruits/vegies/lean meat then you'll have a healthy body.\n\nThe mind works the same way.  If we <adults & children> fill up with junk like violence/sex/and hopelessness then our minds errode and we usually get depressed or angry.  Likewise, if we turn off the media <tv, music, computer, phones> we can stop junk from coming in...we can even fill it with great things like Plato, science, and God, and get a healthier brain.\n\nI saw video on the news <about a month ago> a story about teenagers who beat up a homless man with baseball bats.  The homeless man dies, and the news reported's psychologist claims that the teens were "Displaced" possibly from the violence in video games or TV.
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To give a rationally justified answer to this question, we first need to address the issue of souls.\n\nWhat exactly do you think a soul is?  What properties does it have?  What part of 'you' resides in the soul? \n\nIf it's postulated that consciousness, or awareness, or sense of self resides in the soul, it's difficult to see how this can be reconciled with the complete oblivion which accompanies general anaesthesia.  How could a straightforward chemical,  injected into the bloodstream, anaesthetise a soul so that it effectively ceases to exist during this time?  If consciousness, in the form of a soul, were some kind of supernatural faculty, it would seem implausible that it could be completely disabled by a chemical. \n\nHow about some of the other things which we regard as essential parts of what makes a person what they are?  How about love, compassion, reason, empathy, memory, conscious thought, character, 'spirituality' and so on? Well, there is really no plausible doubt that all these things are properties of the physical brain - We can alter all of these properties very simply with alcohol or other drugs, and observe how they change in people who have suffered significant brain damage.  Previously placid people become uncontrollably violent, intelligent people become imbeciles, and so on.  Stimulate the brain artificially, and the subject reports corresponding mental activity, e.g. 'religious experiences'.  We can see from brain research that all these things - thought, emotion, sensation, character traits and so on - are correlated with activity in the brain, and some things can be identified with specific areas of the brain. \n\nSo, if all these faculties and characteristics of what we regard as the 'person' reside in the physical brain, as seems to be undeniably the case, and they all cease when the person dies, then what is left to be attributed to a 'soul'?  As far as I can ascertain:  Nothing. If there is no part of us that can continue after death, then there is no 'afterlife'... and if there is no afterlife, then most of religion is null and void.
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Take out the brain and they will pronounce you brain dead. The mind is generated by the brain. Like hologram. The mind is a part of the brain.
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I Am the Soul that inhabits a human body. I am made of the energy of God. While in the body I use the physical sense but I am also able to use other senses. How is it when you think of a song in your head you can actually hear it and not be using your physical ears? How is it you can picture a yellow bus in your head and not be using your physical eyes? How is it you can walk into a room where someone is angry and feel it before actually physically finding out? These are extra senses that can be developed into amazing gifts, clairvoyance, clairaudience, clairsentience. Any way I believe that these abilities can be achieved when one lives as the Soul instead of living as the body that has a soul.\nLove & Light
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No, your soul is a metaphysical construct.  Being thus it cannot be assigned to the synaptic functions in the brain.
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Great question. It seems to me that the mind and the spirit are like a peace of string. The string has two ends but is still one. The mind is one end of the string and the spirit the other end.\n\nTo try and make them two different parts is like saying bone and morrow are not connected.\n\nOn one end the mind is where thinking and thoughts are formed. From there action is taken and habits are formed. From there our character is made.\n\nThe spirit is harder to explain. Yet in simple terms is is our life force, our nature, our very being.\n\nOur conscience is the connector. When  we are in sync with our spirit our mind is at peace. When our conscience is distrubed it is b/c we are out of sync with our spirit..our true purpose.\n\nOne and the same? No. Connected, intertwined, yes!
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( scientifically speaking )\n\nour current understanding of the brain suggests that it is essentially a process of CHEMICAL and ELECTRICAL reactions. \n\nif thought is to be anything REAL ( and not metaphysical ) , then it MUST have basis in these chemical and electrical reactions.\n\nthe existence of LONG TERM memory is a well documented phenomena in human beings ( and many animals ).\n\nLong term memory must be "stored" intact for it to be retrieved quickly.  Storage means that the information must be present in an organized pattern in an electric or chemical medium.\n\nthere is no scientific evidence that the brain stores "charge" or electricity in an organized way to encode information ( i.e. it is not a capacitor ).\n\nit does however contain chemicals ( i.e. proteins ) and molecules that can be theoretically be altered and manipulated to encode information.\n\ncurrent speculation is that thoughts have a physical basis in the chemical structure of the brain.\n\nto answer your question, \n\nYES, thoughts DO have a SUBSTANCE .
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True and well-stated, matter is another name for illusion.We acknowledge that all the individual features of the world are experienced through our sense organs. The information that reaches us through those organs is converted into electrical signals, and the individual parts of our brain analyze and process these signals. After this interpreting process takes place inside our brain, we will, for example, see a book, taste a strawberry, smell a flower, feel the texture of a silk fabric or hear leaves shaking in the wind. \nWe have been taught that we are touching the cloth outside of our body, reading a book that is 30 cm (1 ft) away from us, smelling the trees that are far away from us, or hearing the shaking of the leaves that are far above us. However, this is all in our imagination. All of these things are happening within our brains. \nAt this point we encounter another surprising fact; that there are, in fact, no colors, voices or visions within our brain. All that can be found in our brains are electrical signals. This is not a philosophical speculation. This is simply a scientific description of the functions of our perceptions. In her book Mapping The Mind, Rita Carter explains the way we perceive the world as follows:\nEach one [of the sense organs] is intricately adapted to deal with its own type of stimulus: molecules, waves or vibrations. But the answer does not lie here, because despite their wonderful variety, each organ does essentially the same job: it translates its particular type of stimulus into electrical pulses. A pulse is a pulse is a pulse. It is not the colour red, or the first notes of Beethoven's Fifth—it is a bit of electrical energy. Indeed, rather than discriminating one type of sensory input from another, the sense organs actually make them more alike.