Mind is the brain?

[Panatheist]

We are finite. We are not going to survive our deaths. This "debate" is not a "debate". We are merely our brains in motion. Our "experiences" are the manifestation of input, but that unique "I" is our subjective interpretation of what we observe just like the speed of a car. There is no "I" once the brain dies. There is nothing separate from the brain.

There is no "theory of mind". There is just our brains which have unique experiences of input and when we communicate with others that is what we observe. We are still not separate from our brains, we are still our brains in motion and nothing more. Once your brain dies, you die, there is no more you.

I am inclined to agree with perhaps the exception that I think even a nondual explanation is a theory of mind and would further add that "I" am not only a brain, but an ever changing flux of atoms, a particular configuration of particles coming together in such a way as to produce a subjective sense of an autonomous agent, yet that sense of autonomy is an illusion -- there is no ghost in the machine.  "I" exist as an extension of the cosmos: "I" am a part of it, and it is a part of "me."  There is no "me" except in relation to all that is and no need for the hypothesis of a self apart from this organism which is but a local organization of part of our cosmos, no need for duality.

The (in my opinion) correct observation that we can only perceive reports of self-awareness in other organisms (which I with good reasons personally believe are accurate) and the question of whether mind and awareness of said mind emerge at a quantum, chemical, neural, or whole-brain level (as benny has wondered) does not involve the separate question of duality if I have properly understood him.

I would also say that mind does not always entail self-awareness of said mind.  The question of self-awareness might be a separate issue of whether there is a mind at all.  We are not always aware of our own mental processes.