Is mind a part of Brain?
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The brain is the organ responsible for thought and other functions.  The mind is the abstract concept that is the culmination of all thoughts, not a physical object.
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brains. definately brains.
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The mind is the human consciousness that originates in the brain and is manifested especially in thought, perception, emotion, will, memory, and imagination. \n\nThe collective conscious and unconscious processes in a sentient organism that direct and influence mental and physical behavior. \n\nThe principle of intelligence; the spirit of consciousness regarded as an aspect of reality. \n\nThe faculty of thinking, reasoning, and applying knowledge: Follow your mind, not your heart. \n\nA person of great mental ability: the great minds of the century. \n\na. Individual consciousness, memory, or recollection: I'll bear the problem in mind. b. A person or group that embodies certain mental qualities: the medical mind; the public mind. c. The thought processes characteristic of a person or group; psychological makeup: the criminal mind. \n\nOpinion or sentiment: He changed his mind when he heard all the facts. \n\nDesire or inclination: She had a mind to spend her vacation in the desert. \n\nFocus of thought; attention: I can't keep my mind on work. \n\nA healthy mental state; sanity: losing one's mind.
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The brain controls "lower" or involuntary activities such as heartbeat, respiration, and digestion - these are known as autonomic functions. The brain also controls "higher" order, conscious activities, such as thought, reasoning, and abstraction. The human brain is generally regarded as more capable of these higher order activities than any other species.\n\nThe human brain is thought to be the source of the conscious, cognitive mind. The mind is the set of cognitive processes related to perception, interpretation, imagination, and memories, of which a person may or may not be aware. Beyond cognitive functions, the brain regulates autonomic processes related to essential body functions such as respiration and heartbeat.\n\nExtended neocortical capacity allows humans some control over emotional behavior, but neural pathways between emotive centers of the brain stem and cerebral motor control areas are shorter than those connecting complex cognitive areas in the neocortex with incoming sensory information from the brain stem. Powerful emotional pathways can modulate spontaneous emotive expression regardless of attempts at cerebral self-control. Emotive stability in humans is associated with planning, experience, and an environment that is both stable and stimulating, especially during early developmental years.\n\nThe 19th century discovery of the primary motor cortex mapped to correspond with regions of the body led to popular belief that the brain was organized around a homunculus. A distorted figure drawn to represent the body's motor map in the prefrontal cortex was popularly recognized as the brain's homunculus, but function of the human brain is far more complex.\n\nThe human brain appears to have no localized center of conscious control. The brain seems to derive consciousness from interaction among numerous systems within the brain. Executive functions rely on cerebral activities, especially those of the frontal lobes, but redundant and complementary processes within the brain result in a diffuse assignment of executive control that can be difficult to attribute to any single locale.\n\nMidbrain functions include routing, selecting, mapping, and cataloguing information, including information perceived from the environment and information that is remembered and processed throughout the cerebral cortex. Endocrine functions housed in the midbrain play a leading role in modulating arousal of the cortex and of autonomic systems.\n\nNerves from the brain stem complex where autonomic functions are modulated join nerves routing messages to and from the cerebrum in a bundle that passes through the spinal column to related parts of a body. Twelve pairs of cranial nerves, including some that innervate parts of the head, follow pathways from the medulla oblongata outside the spinal cord.\n\nA definite description of the biological basis for consciousness so far eludes the best efforts of the current generation of researchers. But reasonable assumptions based on observable behaviors and on related internal responses have provided the basis for general classification of elements of consciousness and of likely neural regions associated with those elements. Researchers know people lose consciousness and regain it, they have identified partial losses of consciousness associated with particular neuropathologies and they know that certain conscious activities are impossible without particular neural structures.
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Different level of mental states.
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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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We have personal choice but this is usually governed by our Limbic System, which is a complex system of nerve pathways and networks in the brain that is involved in the expression of instinct and mood in activities of the endocrine and motor systems of the body. Among the brain regions involved are the Amygdala, Hippocampal formation, and the Hypothalamus.
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No ,our brain is always on the go on some level.\neven if it is repetitive thoughts it is on the go.\nLeft Brain \n Logical\nSequential\nRational\nAnalytical\nObjective\nLooks at parts  \nvs\nRight Brain \nRandom\nIntuitive\nHolistic\nSynthesizing\nSubjective\nLooks at wholes  \nGL
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No, ROFL.  Life is all in your brain, everything you are is in your brain.\n\nQuestions?  Comments?  Concerns?  Email me through me profile.  :)
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Thought can be seen as the emanation of mind.  Mind is all (everything) there is.  Mind can be seen as the activating agent of Spirit (God), as your index finger can be seen as the activating agent of your hand.  Thought is more than we have understood.  Thought forms your reality as you know it, based on your beliefs, emotions, and expectations.
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The Brain is the least understood part of human anatomy.  Considering this as a fact, and that the eyes (like all other parts of the body) are controlled by the brain, reality is all about perception of senses.  We as humans can be tricked into believing that things are three-dimensional, floating, transparent, or even close to us (how close are stars to earth?)....\n\nI guess you could contemplate anything as reality...so you could see nearly anything...or if you contemplate nothing you could see nothing.\n\n    This message is not really here...it's all perception.\n\nAre you reading this?
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The human brain controls heartbeat, respiration, digestion and other autonomic functions. It is the seat of thought, reasoning, and abstraction. The brain is what makes the cognitive mind possible such as perception, interpretation, imagination, and memories.\n\nWhile all that is good and fine if this is a homework question for elementary school or middle school just put down that it controls thoughts and emotions or something less complicated.
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Oh, what a question.. A question that has no immediate answer. First.. what is the mind: Mind refers to the collective aspects of human intellect and consciousness that originate in the brain and which are manifest in some combination of thought, perception, emotion, will, memory, and imagination.\n\nT H U S: If the mind is indeed a thing S E P A R A T E THING from or higher than the functioning of the brain, then presumably it will not be possible for any machine, no matter how sophisticated, to duplicate it. If on the other hand the mind is no more than the aggregated functions of the brain, then it will be possible, at least in theory, to create a machine with a mind\n\nIn essence. this has been a question from the times of Aristotle to date... We still do not know
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That for me is a completely limiting prospect. And plus it is a completely generalized statement to say that only one part of the brain is responsible for a complex notion as creativity. However pop psychology likes to believe that emotions and creativity comes from the right hemisphere, but again with not enough support. I prefer the saying that the sum of all parts is not equal the whole, for the brain has a very complex physiology that not one part produces a separate effect but rather a group of parts at the same time.
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Interesting. The brain is a bundle of neurons, but it has no "feeling" itself.  An electrode inserted into the brain is painless.
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it's all in the mind.
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The human mind is associated with the brain.  The brain tends to use neurons which have previously been used over those which have never been used.  Background assumptions, beliefs, paradigms all tend to prevent new associations with old concepts.