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atfyfe t1_j2cplyb wrote

The mind isn't so much in the brain, the brain is more like a projector. Consciousness is the show, the brain is just the underlying physical machine that's generating it.

But if you break the projector, the show stops.

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justfa_KBL t1_j2d1eut wrote

This!!

The mind is the "conceptual" brain, something like the operating system which runs in the hardware which is the human body. Consciousness being the show, as atfyfe said, is being aware that you are both your body acting as dictated by the mind and the mind controlling the body.

Additionally, I believe muscle memory is also part of the "mind" concept. Therefore, your full body is your mind and you must be mindful of your body.

If you go one step further then you exist also outside of your body, in the minds of other people with wich you interacted. It's not the real you, just a splinter.

However, we can go even further, if you believe in the power of a global consciousness, that speck in the mind of the people you interacted with is still your mind but in their body. But this sounds like sci-fi already so I'll stop here before getting to astral projections which are not bound by the speed of light, therefore not bound by the concept of time.

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TheArwingPilot t1_j2d4gut wrote

I like the way you think...or rather, I like your mind entering mine by my brain projecting what you typed into my reality.

But seriously, this post blew me away.

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Ellie-Bright t1_j2dsphx wrote

So where is the mind if not the brain, according to you?

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atfyfe t1_j2e2j6t wrote

Not everything has a location. Where is time? Where is the possibility that WW2 didn't happen? Where is red? (if I destroy all the red things in the universe, have I destroyed red itself or just all the red things?) Where is the number '2' or multiplication? Where is the fact that masses attract or the fact that the rule that nothing can go faster than the speed of light or any of the physical laws? They govern physical objects, but they are physical themselves. I can't kick gravity.

Everything does seem to depend on the physical, but it doesn't appear to be true that everything is physical. In philosophy we say all these things at least appear to 'supervene' on the physical.

There are some philosophers who argue that everything is physical (eliminative physicalism), but that view has been losing support in favor of the view that everything depends upon the physical (non-reductive physicalism).

So the mind exists, but it isn't the sort of thing that has a location - just like numbers, physical laws, possibilities, time, etc. It's a part of the world, but not a physical part even if it's existence seems to depend on the physical (i.e your mind stops existing once your brain does and depends on your brain).

See: https://iep.utm.edu/supermin/

Typed on my phone, pls excuse typos.

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