Is the mind the same as the brain?
Question asked by: mrquestion
Asked on: 07 Jan 2010
The mind and the brain may be the same thing but they are used to refer to different things, generally.
The brain is the physical organ whilst the mind generally means just the bit that causes consciousness or our conscious decisions and indeed our self-consciousness: our thoughts, feelings and emotions.
For a long time it was thought that these were not physical entities, but somehow perhaps part of the soul or some non-physical entity, but these days it is thought that they are the results of the very complex physical processes in the brain, though this is all relatively poorly understood compared to other bodily processes.
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