You may ask something like this after reading my last post. If everything is matter, where is the spirit ? Good question, but answer may take a little longer. I do not subscribe to the monistic view that everthing in the wirld can be reduced to a final single entity, whether it is MIND or MATTER, for that matter!!.
It is absurd to think that only mind or only matter exists. Matter has primacy over everything else as without MATTER there is NOTHING.
Mind is the functional output of BRAIN which is matter organized in a very complex manner. One can argue that the human brain is the most complex object on earth. It can think, feel emotions and even be aware of its (and similar others) existence !!!.
How is all this being done ? Well, the complex interrelationship between mind and brain is yet to be fully uncovered. We only have a few fragments of the whole picture. But these fragments are enough to convince us that mental fuctions can largely be reduced to fuctions and activities of, or within the brain.
Neuroscientists have been successful in their attempts to localize the areas of brain responsible for several aspects of mental functioning. Neuraal basis of the ability to understand speech/language and to respond, feel emotions, memories etc have been partly uncovered.
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At times the abilities or the functions of mind make us helpless.One examples is dreams.Dreams allow us to live in a virtual world,where everything can be logical .Mind can experience events,explore the surroundings ,can become emotional,can experiment.other members or human beings and animals can exist,communicate.can even die.etc.We can experience dream in an actual dream.i.e, dream in a dream.it can continue like that many times....So by being logical alone is not enough to belive that neuroscience might help us to explain everything...it may not also.As some body asked" are all these part of a bigger dream somewhere else?"
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