The Mind vs Brain

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I’m reading a book by a Christian author, Holley Gerth called You’re Going To Be Okay.
She’s a counselor with a master’s. It sounds like she’s equating the brain and mind as one in the same, unless I’m misunderstanding.

For those who believe that the brain and mind are separate, do you acknowledge that without the various parts of the brain and it’s function we’d have no emotion, no ability to do anything?
 
Faith1960 said:
I’m reading a book by a Christian author, Holley Gerth called You’re Going To Be Okay.
She’s a counselor with a master’s. It sounds like she’s equating the brain and mind as one in the same, unless I’m misunderstanding.

For those who believe that the brain and mind are separate, do you acknowledge that without the various parts of the brain and it’s function we’d have no emotion, no ability to do anything?
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Correct.

Just as it is our minds that see, yet we’d see nothing without our eyes; and it is our minds that move our bodies, but are helpless to do so without using the limbs.

While our minds are “part” of our spiritual soul, the mind is designed to be embodied.. Were it not for the hideousness that is human death, we would not fear, but celebrate the perfect reliance of mind on body, and vice versa, in human life.

ICXC NIKA.
 
Faith1960 said:
I’m reading a book by a Christian author, Holley Gerth called You’re Going To Be Okay.
She’s a counselor with a master’s. It sounds like she’s equating the brain and mind as one in the same, unless I’m misunderstanding.

For those who believe that the brain and mind are separate, do you acknowledge that without the various parts of the brain and it’s function we’d have no emotion, no ability to do anything?
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To equate the “brain” with the “mind” would be as incorrect as equating the “legs” with “walking”. There is no “walking” without “legs”, but legs can do more than just “walking” One should not confuse the OBJECT with the ACTIVITY of the object. Objects have ontological existence. But objects have attributes, actions and relationships, none of which have ontological existence. There is no ontologically existing “beauty”, there is no “redness” or “truth” or “justice” or “walking” or “in front of” or “next to”… but these all depend on ontologically existing objects.
 
Faith1960 said:
For those who believe that the brain and mind are separate, do you acknowledge that without the various parts of the brain and it’s function we’d have no emotion, no ability to do anything?
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Science is teaching you that.

God gave you a soul, this is where you emotions lie.
 
Nelka said:
Science is teaching you that.

God gave you a soul, this is where you emotions lie.
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But do you realize that without the brain and it’s functioning there’d be no emotion or any movement?
 
vz71 said:
Is love really only a chemical process to be contained within our skull?
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Some would say so. I’m not sure but I do know that without brain function people are left unable to express any form of feeling, eat, move etc.
 
Faith1960 said:
How can that possibly be? When one couldn’t have any emotion without a brain?
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Can you really claim this with certainty without knowledge of what exactly the emotion is?

I cannot see without eyes. But an eye sitting on the table by itself does not see.
So where exactly does vision lie?
 
vz71 said:
Can you really claim this with certainty without knowledge of what exactly the emotion is?

I cannot see without eyes. But an eye sitting on the table by itself does not see.
So where exactly does vision lie?
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Know that without the brain functioning, people who are in a vegetative state can’t express emotion or do anything for themselves.
 
vz71 said:
And this negates the ability to have emotion how?
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I don’t know. All I DO know is that I have OCD and it’s due to brain chemistry not something else.
And,anyone who is brain dead isn’t capable of doing anything.
 
This is why I like to stay away from modern psychologists, they all seem to have swallowed the post-Descartes conception of body-soul interaction and it infects their thinking.
 
schaeffer said:
I understand mind to be a function of the brain.
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I think it would be more accurate to view the brain as the integrating organ of our sensory system, and the mind as that faculty of the soul (i.e., a non-material faculty) which abstracts all the “matter” from the integrated sensory (name removed by moderator)ut to form thoughts and ideas, which are in themselves non-material.

So rather than the brain generating thought, it’s the mind that generates thought, using the sensory (name removed by moderator)ut from the body integrated by the brain.
 
vz71 said:
OCD is not emotion

It’s a chemical imbalance in my brain.

Dead people don’t walk either.
But we don’t lay claim that walking is solely a function of the brain.
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One couldn’t walk without a brain . And my OCD is a chemical imbalance in my brain.
 
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