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akayataya t1_j2cphp9 wrote

We haven't. We cannot point to anywhere in the physical brain where we can say, "There! That's it! That's the mind."

In fact it's backwards. We have to have our mind to be able to see a brain. That is self-evident and objective (you cannot observe a physical brain if you don't have a mind).

Personality, sensory perception, and things of that nature are absolutely affected by neurological processes, but we aren't really able to get outside of a mind to see if a brain can still be observed without one.

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Ruadhan2300 t1_j2d2jq7 wrote

Point to the one part of a cuckoo clock that knows what time it is.

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sirtimes t1_j2cvf0y wrote

Disagree that it's self-evident and objective. Couldn't you just train an AI with a camera to observe a brain and tell you when it's seen one?

I tend to think that the brain is the structure, and what people call the mind is the activity.

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