QuoteYou have described a function, or even a by-product of 'the brain' and its tissue. OK. Dead people have intact brains, in many cases. So, it's hard to imagine that mind is a by-product of an organ/its material formation. So I am not willing to grant that the mind is equivalent to the brain.
Huge fallicy.
Dead people may have brains (prior to decomposition), but
1. They have nothing to power them
2. There is no oxygen supply to them
3. There is massive cellular death
4. There are no salts to facilitate electrical neural transfer.
Your arguement is similiar to:
My car won't start, therefore I don't have a car.
You may not have a working car.
You may not have a car that provides you transportation.
But, You do have a car. Just not one that is functioning properly.
As You grow and learn, fibrous white matter begins growing and connecting different portions of the brain so that those portions can be accessed to either retain information or access information.
This growth and regrowth of these fibrous white strings is constantly changing.
An excerpt from an article from Duke University found here:
http://www.dukemednews.duke.edu/news/article.php?id=9531QuoteThe researchers said their findings provide new insight into how the brain adjusts its thinking processes as people age. Such studies also yield clues to the underlying causes of cognitive decline with aging, they said.
For their studies, the researchers used functional MRI (fMRI) to image the activation of gray matter during testing. And, a relatively new imaging technique called diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) allowed them to gauge the structural integrity of the fibrous white matter. The gray matter of the brain is responsible for information processing, while the white matter enables information transmission among different areas of the brain.
Note the words "cognitive decline"
That means the decline in the ability to think, which is indicitive of 'the mind'
It is the combination of what is contained in your grey matter, and how it is accessed, and what groups of neurons are accessed, that determines your individual pattern of thought, aka your mind.
Based on what you think about, how often you think about certain things, and your thought patterns, new fibrous material forms accessing different portions of the grey matter of your brain.
QuoteYour mind, 'originating in the brain', which is in your body... Are you clear about - can you perceive/see clearly - that which is in your body? (EG: about that which moves along your nerves and the pulsing of your veins.)
Before you can perceive/see clearly the outside of your body, you should be able to do this, if the mind is in fact *in* your body.
No, Your brain does not have the required sensory organs to detect things within the body like that. Your brain is connected to numerous sensors. Your eyes, Your ears, Your taste buds, olfactory, and millions of nerves leading to different portions of the body.
A perfect example, when your stomach is empty your stomach fires a signal (via a nerve) to a portion of your brain responsible for the hunger sensation. There are a lot of sensors built into the brain that you don't think about other than the 'standard 5'.
But, there is no organic sensory 'eye' to 'see' inside of your body.
However, that does not prove the brain is not the mind, it just means that we don't have the organic sensory organ required.
I think a lot of your questions will be answered in a good sound course in basic biology.
Jessica
