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The brain is a less understood physical organ, but it is a physical organ which gives human beings intellectual and emotional characteristics somewhat different from those of turtles.

Dear JediJones, if the physical brain is "a less understood physical organ," then on what basis can we confidently claim that it is the ground of the "human being's intellectual and emotional characteristics?"

I have recently read, courtesy of the mathematician, systems theorist and theoretical biologist Robert Rosen, that the human "physical brain" is the single most-complex "system" in universal Nature.

It should be needless to say that a "system" is what it is by virtue of its underlying organizational rules. Alternatively put, if it weren't assembled according to certain rules, "random matter" cannot even aspire to being anything at all.

Or so it seems to me, FWIW.

The main point I would like to raise here is the question of whether there is any conceivable distinction to be drawn between the human "brain" and the human "mind."

Are you interested in exploring this topic, dear JediJones? Certainly I am! It would be so much fun!

And possibly even useful for passersbys....

Anyhoot, thank you ever so much for writing!

[JediJones]

The main point I would like to raise here is the question of whether there is any conceivable distinction to be drawn between the human "brain" and the human "mind."

I would say the mind is a subset of the brain. The brain controls a lot of unconscious bodily functions as well. But I'm sure our mind is in our brain. Despite a lot of men being accused of thinking with their you-know-what.