What is "Mind?"

What is it that is cataloging that visual information and constructing decisions based on analysis?

A lot of repetition of parts, but not a strong symmetry like that in my image, certainly.

That is a look at the brain from one perspective. Most of us experience a sense of self which has no simple explanation as physiology and no definite location within brain anatomy. It should be remembered, though, that surgically cutting the connections of the prefrontal cortex to the rest of the brain can have a profound effect on personality. This kind of operation was performed on thousands of people before drug treatment became preferred for serious mental illness.

I become a transparent eye-ball; I am nothing; I see all."

Nice commentary, Ed. Thanks. I'd like to comment, but that stuff is way over my head. I will leave the articulate reply to Largo who is undaunted by difficult physics.

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What kind of God would send us to hell?

The question is what or who is the operator of the mind? The observing entity within the mind that finds satisfaction in its knowing, that revels in a sure sense of epistemological certainty.

I believe that entity is the soul. I call it the soul for lack of a better term.

I don’t know if that individual soul is eternal, but the structure of soul, in the general sense, does share a kind of eternity with the very structure of the universe, its arche, its physical limits, the strange structure of consciousness itself and structures forming inevitably within a context of what may very well be the eternal nature of the universe.

But, based on the Moore's law, the whole brain simulation will be possible within 50 years.

Nope. An educated guess based on the rate of progress in human knowledge.

I'm curious, How would you define "progress" in Islam over the last tweive hundred years?

I like your sense of humor, Paul.

This crowd wouldn't know Rumi from a Carigslist category.

Faith: a certainty based on desire rather than evidence.

WASHINGTON—Saying the finding would further scientists’ understanding of the most remote parts of the universe, NASA astronomers announced at a press conference Thursday that they had discovered a previously unknown cluster of nothingness in deep space. “Through the use of high-resolution infrared imaging, we have identified a large grouping of total emptiness roughly 8.5 billion light-years away that had heretofore gone undetected,” said NASA lead researcher Edward Hefter, adding that the newly discovered blank expanse, which is located between two immense regions of nothing, was far larger and more insignificant in scope than first thought. “We are continuing to investigate the age and origin of the emptiness, but it will be a slow process given that there is absolutely nothing in the cluster to study. However, initial data indicate that the space likely formed when a smaller void merged with a larger vacuum.” Hefter added that the distant cluster of nothingness strongly resembles 481 million similar such regions discovered in recent decades.

It [mind] is not reductive to objective functioning, as we have seen.