The mind
Other than neuroscientists and psychologists, few people are interested in the workings of the brain.
But they do tend to be interested in their minds.
- “I’ve got something on my mind.”
- “I’ve changed my mind.”
- “I always speak my mind.”
- “It’s mind over matter.”
- “I haven’t made up my mind.”
- “Sorry for my absent-mindedness.”
We will never truly know what the mind is or how it works, because it’s not an it.
The mind–body problem — the challenge of explaining the relation between mind and matter — has fascinated philosophers from René Decartes onwards, and will continue to do so.
My studies have led me to conclude that whereas the left and right hemispheres of the brain are connected by the corpus callosum, mind and body are connected by the heart.
What I’m presenting is, of course, just a working hypothesis and can never be anything more.
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