JLNobody wrote:Someone might conclude that there may exist a brain wilthout a mind but never a mind without a brain. I share the latter assumption but not the former conclusion. A dead "brain" is only a lump of matter; without the activity or function of mind-ing it is not really, or no longer, a brain in the full sense of the concept.
This is how I see it too.
But I have this totally unsubstantiated idea that both mind and brain are "tools" for something else. Brain evolves through time, but so does mind. The evolution of one provokes the evolution of the other.
And now I have to introduce a mythical entity that is as hotly debated over as the existence of god; the soul.
The soul is not sentient. It is not intelligent, and it is not emotional. All these are qualities of mind/brain. The soul is merely the mystical force that makes cells in a living organism divide and reproduce. It is the same in all creatures, but in a more complex creature the soul is more fully expressed.
Like I said, this is only a notion I like to play with sometimes, and I make no claim that any of it is true. It is merely a way to categorize the aspects of a living creature.
This idea of mine includes reincarnation too, but that is an elaborate subject, and even more off topic, so I will not go into it here.
Perhaps I'll start a thread about it...
