And as such, psychology is not fit to answer it. It's an unanswered question that probably gets a lot more attention from philosophy than psychology. But the mind is clearly not identical to "the organic brain", if anything there is a supervenience relation between them.
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DaanniiM.Sc Cognitive Neuroscience (Ph.D in Progress)•
If the mind is not the organic structure than what is it?
If the mind is not organic, then how is it that damage to the brain can cause personality changes, memory dysfunction, emotional changes?
The mind is the physical organic structure.
Mental functions are a product of electrical and chemical interactions that are facilitated by stimuli.
Nothing can be extracted because it can't be separated from its physical form.
It's like trying to seperate a heart beat from the heart.
You can surely record the activity of a heart. A "picture" of its function. But you cannot extract a heartbeat from the heart. And you cannot extract a mind from the brain.
A human mind cannot be put into a computer.
The mind is the organic brain. It is not something that can be extracted.
This is not really a psychology question.
And as such, psychology is not fit to answer it. It's an unanswered question that probably gets a lot more attention from philosophy than psychology. But the mind is clearly not identical to "the organic brain", if anything there is a supervenience relation between them.
If the mind is not the organic structure than what is it?
If the mind is not organic, then how is it that damage to the brain can cause personality changes, memory dysfunction, emotional changes?
The mind is the physical organic structure.
Mental functions are a product of electrical and chemical interactions that are facilitated by stimuli.
Nothing can be extracted because it can't be separated from its physical form.
It's like trying to seperate a heart beat from the heart.
You can surely record the activity of a heart. A "picture" of its function. But you cannot extract a heartbeat from the heart. And you cannot extract a mind from the brain.