And ANOTHER thing about the Brain and the Mind is... ok I'm not really going down that route at the moment. Well not on the blog anyway. The subject of consciousness, the Mind Body problem, and all that, is still very much on my mind though (or Brain; take your pick) and I've just started my Masters on the subject (post coming soon). But I must share this from Nick's blog, biotechnorati.
Remember my diagrams laying out the main positions with regard to the connection between Brain and Mind? (previous post)
Are Mind and Brain 2 different things?
Or 2 words for the same thing?
Or perhaps Mind is an illusion:
It feels like our mind has control over the body:
but Neuroscience suggests the opposite is true; Mind, whatever it is or is not, arises from the brain:
The 5 diagrams seemed to me to be the exhaustive list on the subject, but the more I read the more I began to wonder if the 2 concepts could be intertwined in some other way, a way that suggested a deeper interconnectedness between the 2 concepts. The letters 'I' and 'N' are common to both words so I thought there must be a way to express this diagramatically, but I couldn't think of any way to do it. I mentioned it to Nick and then thought no more about it. But Nick, unlike me, has a habit of following things through to their ultimate conclusion, and he has come up with this. I think it's fantastic.
I've searched online and can't find anything like it. Nice job mate!
See biotechnorati here for the full story.
Um, okay; but why did you illustrate it with a picture of a rather dull peacock carrying an orange?
Posted by: David | January 26, 2012 at 06:29 AM
Yes, im afraid the sketch of the brain is a bit underwhelming. It was all I could find to use without infringing copyright.
BTW, I thought that the central bit looks like a pigeon pecking the pituitary gland. Try googling that ;-)
Posted by: Nick | January 28, 2012 at 09:54 PM