The mind
It is my experience that aside from neuroscientists, most people have little interest in the workings of the brain.
They are much more 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 yet made up my mind.”
- “Apologies 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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