Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

To: RobRoy
The brain is hardware. The mind is software.

A distinction without a difference. The mind is the behavior of the brain, and learning visibly alters the structure of the brain. Changes in the structure of the brain can be the result of biological evolution or the result of learning.

356 posted on 02/14/2005 12:36:03 PM PST by js1138
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 355 | View Replies ]


To: js1138

>>The mind is the behavior of the brain, and learning visibly alters the structure of the brain.<<

The mind is consciousness. That is, it is you. The brain is merely the part of your biological machine that the software called "You" runs on.

And in every case, it is version 1.0. 8^>


360 posted on 02/14/2005 12:54:30 PM PST by RobRoy (They're trying to find themselves an audience. Their deductions need applause - Peter Gabriel)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 356 | View Replies ]

To: js1138; Alamo-Girl; marron; RightWhale; RobRoy; Tulsa; gobucks
The mind is the behavior of the brain, and learning visibly alters the structure of the brain.

I want to see the evidence that backs up the assertion, "The mind is the behavior of the brain," js1138. For otherwise, it strikes me as being yet another "theological statement."

As to this "learning visibly alters the structure of the brain" business: It is well understood that the infant brain continues rapidly to develop well past birth, for at least another 24 months or so. This is the time when (presumably) the infant is most rapidly learning. But which came first, the brain development or the learning? Or to put it another way, is the brain developing because the infant is learning, or is the rapid learning of an infant the result of the brain development? Do you know? Does anybody know for certain fact which it is?

373 posted on 02/14/2005 1:53:06 PM PST by betty boop
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 356 | View Replies ]

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article


FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson