Posted on 09/21/2023 3:52:12 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
For many people, the mind and brain are interchangeable. They use one word or the other to talk about the same thing: the organ in our skull that we use to think.
However, the mind and brain are actually two very different, but interconnected, entities. As a neuroscientist, this reality is the foundation of my life's research and work: The mind works through the brain but is separate from the brain.
What is the difference between the mind and the brain? So what exactly is the difference between the mind and the brain? Well, the mind is separate, yet inseparable from, the brain.
The mind uses the brain, and the brain responds to the mind. The mind also changes the brain. People choose their actions—their brains do not force them to do anything. Yes, there would be no conscious experience without the brain, but experience cannot be reduced to the brain's actions.
The mind is energy, and it generates energy through thinking, feeling, and choosing. It is our aliveness, without which, the physical brain and body would be useless. That means we are our mind, and mind-in-action is how we generate energy in the brain.
This is a major part of the activity we pick up with brain technology. When we generate this mind energy through thinking, feeling, and choosing, we build thoughts, which are physical structures in our brain made of proteins. This building of thoughts creates structural changes in the brain, called neuroplasticity1.
In my recent clinical trials, we saw how energy in the brain changed as the subject was thinking, stimulating neuroplasticity. The brain was responding to the person's stream-of-consciousness and nonconscious activity.
The mind is a stream of nonconscious and conscious activity when we're awake, and a stream of nonconscious activity when we're asleep. It's characterized by a triad of thinking, feeling, and choosing. When you think, you will feel, and when you think and feel, you will choose. These three aspects always work together.
So, how does this affect us?
The brain is an extremely complex neuroplastic responder. This essentially means, each time it's stimulated by your mind, it responds in various ways—including neurochemical, genetic, and electromagnetic changes. This, in turn, grows and changes structures in the brain, building or wiring new physical thoughts.
The brain is never the same because it changes with every experience you have, every moment of every day. In sum: Your mind is how you, uniquely, experience life. It's responsible for how you think, feel, and choose. And your physical brain merely responds to these unique experiences.
Knowing your mind and brain are separate puts you in the control seat because you can learn to manage your thoughts and actions. Ultimately, it means you can choose what you build into your brain and how you choose to change what's already built in.
When you learn how to manage your mind, you can make feelings of depression, stress, anger, and anxiety work for you instead of against you. You can bring balance back into your brain and life.
The brain is the hardware; the mind is the OS?
…kinda-sorta…
…maybe the programs, applications = feelings/moods/individual thoughts, etc🤣…
I think it's possible that the "mind" is our very consciousness--it is who we are.
The brain appears to be a kind of adaptor mechanism that our consciousness needs to connect with this reality or dimension roughly the way a remote-controlled DaVinci surgical robot enables a surgeon to operate telescopically on a patient though the patient and surgeon are in different parts of the country.
The soul/mind is attached to the body through or near the brain but it's probably not even in the same physical dimension as the brain and body.
As some people who have had near-death experiences have said, the brain actually limits the mind in a way. But without these limitations, we would not be able to connect with this world.
The suit is very limiting and restrictive...but necessary.
As Paul says, "Absent from the body...present with the Lord. (2 Cor. 5:8)
Sounds like a bunch of semantics Mumbo-Jumbo, but hey, some guy probably got a government grant (paid for by you and me) to write it.
…is something that’s always just made sense to me…
…on this earth we are a combination of all three…
…one day we will not have use of the first two…
…the last one is eternal…
…always looked at dreams, visions and near death experiences…
…as the user(#3 soul) taking a break from the first two for a bit…
…kinda gettin up and stretching the legs…
…can still see the monitor, but not being able to reach the keyboard…
Pretty good description..
The human soul is very large. About 30 ft in diameter at its smallest point.
Earliest life memories are stored furthest from the physical body. Current memories are stored close to the body.
The soul provides the consciousness for life to exist. It is the epigenetic influence that causes the zygote to form and for the stem cells to specialize.
The soul manifests the physical body, and continues to exist when the body is gone.
The Bible is very accurate in teaching what is necessary for the soul to grow.(Jesus’s teachings)
The entire physical body exists within the soul. It connects everywhere, but there are certain places with stronger connections. The braun, the spine, the gut (Vagus nerves), and the brain.
The most important connection is in the heart and its the reason the heart will continue beating for several minutes after removal from the body.(some beat for 30+ minutes, totally disconnected from the body.
The heart is also the location where two souls connect to become one in the eyes of God, per Paul’s statements. It also the reason for the heartache in grief when a loved one dies and departs the heart connection.
Life in the body begins at conception when the soul enters. Without the soul, there would be no life.
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How do you explains Democrats?
They are out of their minds and their brains are shoved far up their asses that they are non-functional.
Very apt analogy; I’ve a similar analogue thusly: we all have a God-shaped hole in our being and if it is not filled by its rightful Occupant, the Holy Spirit, something unholy will take His place.
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