[net.sci] Mind, Brain, the Universe?

dno@cvl.UUCP (David Oskard) (06/26/84)

	Gordon (and everybody else),

	I believe I draw the distinction between "mind" and brain in
the following way.  The brain is matter and chemical/electromagnetic
reactions and whatever else goes on in there.  The mind is a thing
which all those dead Greek people defined to exist.  Therefore, since I
define it, it exists.  Seriously though,  I consider the mind to be the
effect of the brain on the person--the controlling mechanism.  Then
again, I also believe there is a part of a person which exists separately
from this mechanism though.  This is the part of me that just sits
there and watches.  Wadda ya think?

				David Oskard
				dno@cvl.arpa
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