(April 1, 2016 at 12:46 pm)Rhythm Wrote: Very well may be. The question being asked is not about what the mind (or brain) -does-....not the thinking. The experience thereof, what it -is-, in the first place..would be the question. That's why the analogy to lightbulbs and lips isn't as informative as it may appear at a glance. We'd have to modify each statement to compare apples to apples.
Oops lost track of this one. What I meant to insinuate is that the mind, the light and the smile don't have any existence apart from those things which give rise to them. The only reason some are tempted to exalt the mind to the point of giving it independent existence is that we identify so much with the mind. Pretty much everything we think of as who we are arises in the mind. We are unable to immediately apprehend the role of the brain in our mental life, though the study of patients with brain trauma should accomplish the same.