Question

what is the difference between mind and brain what is the difference between mind and brain @Biology

Answer 1

I think mind is the part of the brain that deals with thinking, learning and memory.

Answer 2

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Answer 3

The mind is itself intangible, a manifestation of the physical thing we call the brain. It is like the difference between your computer and the software it runs. Your brain is the hardware, your mind is the software.

Answer 4

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Answer 5

how about mine? I could go on, I am very interested in this kind of thing.

Answer 6

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Answer 7

The brain is a system of neurons, physical cells which can be dissected and studied. The neurons in your brain act like binary switches, either on or off, each transmitting a signal based on a given input (light for instance induces your optical neurons to fire). The neurons in your brain communicate to each other which causes a cascade of neuron-firing, which results in an overall sensation (like "this light is bright blue"). The brain is just the transmitter and processor of the signal; a direct physical cause-and-effect relationship.

The mind is far less understood and of much more debatable origin. It is the part of us that we consider "conscious". Light may stimulate the neurons in our brain, but the whole host and structure of the brain seems to cause a phenomenon known as the mind, which feels and thinks about the input our brain is receiving. The mind is the aspect of our brain that makes us "feel" we are actually alive, not just mechanical devices responding to a given stimulus. It is abstract and non-physical. It cannot be dissected, only studied through analogy in behavior and our brains computer-like nature.

I once again refer you to the hardware-software analogy: that our brain is the computer and our mind is the software. That is currently probably the most scientifically accepted viewpoint of the mind, though be assured that studies of the mind and consciousness are fraught with disagreement in the scientific community, so not all will agree on practically anything to do with consciousness.

Answer 8

If you are still unsatisfied with this I guess I can't blame you; science is not either. I would refer you to a great, Pulitzer Prize-winning book called GEB: Godel, Escher, Bach by Douglas Hofstadter
Other authors on the subject of mind-brain relationship include John Searl and Daniel C. Dennet.
Or you can use this nice free e-book:
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Consciousness_Studies