The mind

The aim of this thesis is to explain what the Mind is. Not so much on all the philosophical possibilities as to how it could be, but how it actually is according to our best knowledge. Therefore there is a heavy emphasis on neuro-physics and psychology throughout all of the chapters. In general the Mind can be divided into three parts; sense organs, memory and the consciousness. Most of the data provided by neuro-physics and psychology is on memory, which in general is described as chemical in its nature. The nature of the consciousness is, of course, a more difficult question. In fact it is, as Dennett says, one of those things left for the philosophers, with which they can make fools of themselves. One of the claims of this thesis is that with certain qualifications we can say that the consciousness has a separate, electric existence of its own. After all one is either conscious or is not, and it makes a big difference. Such a claim naturally gives rise to one of the basic questions in philosophy; that of dualism. This questions can be seen in two ways. If consciousness is seen as electric energy and memory and the rest of the brain as chemical materia, what then is the difference between energy and material? This thesis has very little to offer in answering that question. It is only accepted that the Einsteinian equation E=mc2 shows the common basis for both energy and matter. Therefore any claim for dualism on the energy/matter basis is a question of interpretation. Both of the elements are only two aspects of the same thing; that of Being