Thread: can the mind exist independent from the brain?

I think it's possible. But look at The Matrix, the only way to get to mind (which controls everything you do) is trough the brain. Sticking that long metal stick in the back of your head.

Or even look at the computer. Is it really CPU thats makes it work, or the operating system, without the software (the mind), the hardware (the physical brain) is nothing. Even our mind exists outside already, look at what we're doing now, posting our thoughts into an interconnected network of information over cyberspace for "other minds" to read.

Iunno if this makes any sense but thats my view, if it makes sense.

Software can easily be transcribed on a medium and deposited in a new computer. A mind, however, may differ in that capacity, yet still be a computer. A mechanical computer, for example, may run a 'program' determined by its mechanical elements, but the program and the 'computer' cannot be separated. To describe the program, the entire computer must be described.

I do not think the mind can be separated from the brain, but I do believe that it may be possible to construct a computerized analogue to the brain, allow it to communicate with a person's brain, and end up with a computerized version of a person's mind. It wouldn't be the same, of course, but I think that is as close to separating the mind and the brain as possible.

Almost all religeons believe that the conscious mind can exist independantly from the body.