[ExI] Probability is in the mind.

[citta437 at aol.com]

Lee wrote:
"Recall that the Germans don't even have a word for "mind".
So are they just lost souls in examining these questions?
No, it just means that we cannot---must not---put too
much weight on any particular word."
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Most of us often mistake a word or thought as the territory/reality. We 
use the mind/map to navigate our way out of the forest of trees. 
However the map/mind or brain is flexible depending upon the 
circumstances of birth/genes and random events.
The movement/behavior of the mind is affected by evolution as well as 
the movements of ions and electrons in the quantum world.
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Lee wrote: "Your last sentence
"How do you test if the mind is a behavior of the brain?"
really ought to have been followed by one sentence
starting "That is, ..." which used different terms to try to
say the same thing (the acid test of whether one is thinking
clearly, and possibly even a second follow-up sentence
starting "In other words..."
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Another way of saying it simply{ via occam"s razor}, without the brain 
there is no mind. How do you test this? That would be removing the 
brain or putting you under general anesthesia wherein the five senses 
including the sixth sense/the mind located in the brain's uppermost 
layer /the cerebral cortex in suspended state of cognition.

In awareness or awakened state, the mind as a living matter observes 
thoughts as rising and falling like a wave, thus the observer is the 
observed.

Hope that helps,
Terry

P.S.  Terry, sorry to be taking out on you a lot
of criticism that could and should be directed at
about 62.7% of the posts on this and related threads.
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No need to apologize. I'm thankful for your posts and other related 
posts.