Mind is the brain?

[Brian37]

This was posted on another forum:

The central paradigm of contemporary psychology and neuroscience is that the mind = the brain.
This is taken for granted, but why believe it?  The main reason that is given is that changes in the brain seem to correlate with changes in the mind,e.g. put someone in an fMRI scanner and ask them to think about certain things, and parts of the brain 'light up' on the fMRI image.  Damage to the brain can cause damage to the mind, e.g. multiple strokes can lead to vascular dementia involving memory loss and personality changes.  All this shows an intimate correlation between the brain and the mind, so the mind must be nothing over and above the brain.
The fallacy of this argument is that correlation entails identity:  If two things occur together then they must be identical.  This is wrong.  If two things occur together, then they are linked, but not necessarily identical.  For example, take a radio.  Electrical activity in the circuit board correlates with the sound produced, and if you make changes to the circuit board you also change the sound, but we dont say that the sound is = the electrical activity or the circuit board.  Nor is the sound completely explained by the electrical activity, as this would exclude the radio presenter from the explanation when he is the actual cause of the sound.
Of course this doesnt prove that the mind is other than the brain, only that the main reason for thinking they are identical is flawed.  Here are some other bad reasons for thinking they are identical:


http://www.unc.edu/~ujanel/GIVING%20DUALISM.pdf

The paper is written by an atheist philosopher.

There is no "paradigm". There is no mystery.

You are literally your brain in motion. No different than a car with fuel will run and a car without fuel will not run. Human simply are stuck on old claims and gap fill out of a sense of false comfort and or fear. 

You smash up your computer into unusable parts it will not function as if it were int tact with no damage. YOU are your brain in motion. No, it isn't sexy, but it is reality.