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Where is the mind located?

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Anonymous

12y ago
Updated: 8/16/2019

The mind is the abstract, collective, synergistic group of functions that is created by the interplay between all of the brain's neural tissue and the various chemicals and signals in between.

By analogy, a neuron is to the brain as a person is to a society.

And, the brain is to the mind as a society is to a culture.

Take all of the functions of a working brain (sensory and cognitive processing) and the mind becomes an emergent phenomenon that develops from such processes.

Remove certain portions of the brain, and other areas will often adapt, due to neural plasticity. As long as enough of the brain is functioning at a given time, the cognitive functions that we deem a "mind" will be present. Consciousness and REM sleep show cohesive mind functionality. Whereas coma does not.

Also, if enough of the brain is damaged, particularly in the frontal lobes, then the "mind" ceases to exist, as it is also defined by the executive processes of cognition.

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