Where is our mind located? In our heart? In our brain?
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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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The ancients considered the heart the center of both emotion and intelligence. The connection between the heart and emotions is derived from that early false belief. Incidentally, that belief left them with the problem of what the purpose of the brain might be. A common theory was that the brain was a cooling mechanism for the blood.
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Great question that has been raised in many a bio-psych class.  Our brain is much more adaptable and maleable than a computer. I would love to be able to "delete" some of my memories and would definately love to organize my thoughts into "file folders" but our brain does not do that.  We are unable to control/alt/delete either.  \n\nThe human brain is amazing and I don't believe we know everything that it is capable of.  \n\nGood luck on this fun question and discussion!
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The mind is its own place, and in itself\nCan make a heav'n of hell, a hell of heav'n.\n(What matter where, if I be still the same.....)
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In the brain.  \n\nIts in the frontal lobes above the orbits of the eyes and is associated with decision making and emotions.
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ALWAYS MIND. WHEN U USE HEART U ARE MAKING DECISIONS BASED ON EMOTIONS, AND OUR EMOTIONS AREN'T ALWAYS STABLE. SO IF U THINK THINGS THROUGH AND USE UR MIND, U WILL ALWAYS BE MAKING THE RIGHT DECISION.
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brains. definately brains.
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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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Have you not hear people asking HAVE YOU LOST YOUR BRAIN MIND YOUR OWN BUSINESS \nSO YOU SEE THE DIFFERENCE\nPEOPLE WHO LOSE CONSCIOUSNESS HAVE BRAIN BUT THEIR MIND STOPPED WORKING.\nBRAIN IS LOCATED IN HEAD BUT MIND IS REALATED TO HEART TOO
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Brain is the portion of the vertebrate central nervous system that is enclosed within the cranium, continuous with the spinal cord, and composed of gray matter and white matter. It is the primary center for the regulation and control of bodily activities, receiving and interpreting sensory impulses, and transmitting information to the muscles and body organs. It is also the seat of consciousness, thought, memory, and emotion. \nA functionally similar portion of the invertebrate nervous system. \n\nIntellectual ability; mind: a dull brain; a quick brain. \n\nMind the capacity of thinking, reasoning, and acquiring and applying knowledge. Mind refers broadly to the capacities for thought, perception, memory, and decision: “No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear” (Edmund Burke). Intellect stresses knowing, thinking, and understanding: “Opinion is ultimately determined by the feelings, and not by the intellect” (Herbert Spencer). Intelligence implies solving problems, learning from experience, and reasoning abstractly: “The world of the future will be an ever more demanding struggle against the limitations of our intelligence” (Norbert Wiener). Brain suggests strength of intellect: We racked our brains to find a solution. Wit stresses quickness of intelligence or facility of comprehension: “There is no such whetstone, to sharpen a good wit and encourage a will to learning, as is praise” (Roger Ascham). Reason, the capacity for logical, rational, and analytic thought, embraces comprehending, evaluating, and drawing conclusions: “Since I have had the full use of my reason, nobody has ever heard me laugh” (Earl of Chesterfield). The human consciousness that originates in the brain and is manifested especially in thought, perception, emotion, will, memory, and imagination. \nThe collective conscious and unconscious processes in a sentient organism that direct and influence mental and physical behavior. \nThe principle of intelligence; the spirit of consciousness regarded as an aspect of reality. \nThe faculty of thinking, reasoning, and applying knowledge
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The brain is an organ of the body, like any other organ, in that it has a distinctive structure and tissue types specific to the brain.  Thus, it is a biological entity.  Psychology is a study of our mental processes and behaviour, not the actual biology of the brain organ.
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Interesting question, Jessica and I thank you for asking.....\n\nI cannot speak for anyone else because everyone has their own perspective on life and where it leads when its over......\n\nI can say that inside of us is a piece of understanding which is hidden as it is written..... the mystery of it is found in dreams... in a language that is so obscure and ridiculous and perilously real that it can be construed as the "other life we live".......\n\nWhatever that place is, we go there even symbolically saying so to one another.... "going to bed"... "going to sleep"....."going to nodsville".... etc......  That place, as I know it, is the kingdom of God..... (Luke 17:21)......\n\nThat place is the place we came from before we be-came human... and is the place we go to when we are no more in the world.........  What some call:  "born again"....... (born there from here, that is.... As we were born here from there...)\n\nSome let go of the breath and it is dispersed in the air....  according to Scripture, the air is all about us and is the place where Christ will meet us..... without that breath which gives us to reason, gives us to function, gives us to record our daily thoughts in that place, everything else, in the body, breaks down cell by cell...... That breath is life...... ((Genesis 1:26))........\n\nHeaven can be construed as the kingdom to which we return.... it is coming......\n\nyet...\n\nThe kingdom of God is inside of us (luke 17:21) it already exists and is the reason we can see, do, and experience that "other life".....\n\n((PS:  I'm a dream interpreter.... So, I understand its language...))\n\nWhat is inside of us, records a "book" at the end of our life's days.... and it will be turned in for a grand reading called judgement....... (Revelation 20:12, Daniel 7:9)\n\n\nyour sister,\nGinger
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A BRAIN.\n\nDEFINITELY A BRAIN....
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the one of brain's function in human physiology is that on the certain segment of brain controls heart rate. That means brain can order the heart to keep on pump in order to stay alive. \n\nWith each beat, the heart continuously communicates with the brain and body via the nervous system, hormonal system, bioelectromagnetic interactions, and other pathways.
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Our thought are information and dependent on the physical reality of brain. You can not project your thoughts beyond the confines of your brain, unless they are piggy-backed on a transfer wave, such as the intelligence of radio waves is piggy-backed on carrier waves; all physical. You are confused, because instead of getting a proper education in these matters, you wish to believe some form of " alternative " explanation to reality.
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That 10% story has fallen to Urban Myth status.  New medical imaging techniques can now show which parts of the brain are in use during particular functions, such as speaking, reading, listening to music, etc.  Turns out that your brain uses many differnt parts to do most functions, but certiain functions TEND to concentrate in particular areas.\n\nWhat remains of the myth, though, may actually help understand what I said in the last paragraph.  Many people who have hade severe brain damage and loss of many functions, can sometimes regain at least some ot those functions when the brain learns to use other, undamaged parts to do what the damaged parts used to.\n\nYeah, a vital organ.  An artificial heart can keep a person going, but with no brain, even a beating heart runs in an empty shell.
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The brain. It is so complex and controls every other organ. I think it is the most important, since without it, all of your other organs would have no use.