I think the mind is intangible. In fact, I believe it’s an insertion into our physical realm from the spiritual realm.
SCS Lewis said, and I paraphrase, “It is said that you have a soul. You are a soul. What you have is a body.”
If I may use another example, your body is like a desktop computer. The brain is the hard drive storage and all those background processes running, while your mind is the application that uses all of that. Yet the application technically doesn’t actually physically exist. When the computer is shut off, the application goes away. It is a virtual thing.
Of course, all analogies have their limits, but I think you know what I’m driving at.
…be it just an OS with varying amounts of applications …
…we have souls, an operator with the ability, if chosen, to control the software and the peripherals…
I’ve studied with Eric Kandel, a psychiatrist at Columbia University who received a Nobel Prize for his research on the biochemistry of memory storage, and with Joe LeDoux at NYU who wrote several textbooks on memory storage and retrieval.
I asked both of them where memories are stored. Both replied with similar answers, “In the synapses of the brain.”
I didn’t argue with them as I was with them to learn and held my own observations to myself.
When you have seen and heard a soul of a dead person move into and attach to another person, and communicate through their host’s voice, they have total memory recall of their own physical life experiences, but no physical body, you soon realize that memories are NOT STORED IN THE BRAIN. I’ve observed and experienced this many times.
The same is true for ghosts.