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Your brain is the hardware - Your mind is the software - Life is the printout
We have seen many images and photographs of the brain in the earlier session. The brain is the
engine of grey matter and how remarkable it is. What cannot be illustrated is the mind in action.

In layman’s terms then what id the difference between your brain and your mind?

The brain is an organ but the mind isn't. The brain is the physical place where the mind resides. It
is a vessel in which the electronic impulses that create thought are contained. With the brain
you coordinate your moves, your organism, your activities and transmit impulses. But you use the
mind to think. You can muse at what happened, what is scheduled and what maybe will
happen.

The mind is the manifestations of thought, perception, emotion,
determination, memory and imagination that all takes place
within the brain. Mind is often used to refer especially to the
thought processes of reason. The mind is the awareness of
consciousness we know, the ability to control what we do, and
know what we are doing and why. It is the ability to understand.
The image of the brain filled with cogwheels at the start of this session was chosen
deliberately as it seems to depict most accurately, the shape of the brain with
the mind and its processes of thought represented by the whirring of the cogs
within our brain.

Animals are able to interpret their environments, but not understand them. whereas human are
able to understand what happens around them, even if not the scientific reasoning for it, and
therefore we can adapt to the surroundings.

The mind is the set of thinking faculties including cognitive aspects such as consciousness,
imagination, perception, thinking, judgement, language and memory, as well as noncognitive
aspects such as emotion. Under the scientific physicalist interpretation, the mind is housed at
least in part in the brain.

The nature of the relationship between the human mind and body has been the subject of long
speculation and curiosity.
Where Do Thoughts Occur?

Certainly your brain is a wonderful organ. However some cognitive scientists argue that without
the help of your body, your brain would be nowhere.

We think big. We think out loud. We think outside the box. We think on our feet. But what we
don’t do is think entirely inside our heads. Thoughts aren’t confined to our brains — they course
through a network that expands to our bodies, perhaps eliminating, at times, the need for
complex thought.

The notion that we think with the body — the startling conclusion of a field called embodied
cognition — flies in the face of long-standing views. Early cognitive psychologists defined
thought as an activity that resides in the brain: Sensory data come in from eyes and ears, fingers
and funny bone, and the mind turns these signals into disembodied representations that it
manipulates in what we call thinking.