What God is to the Universe is what your mind is to your body

[bennyboy]

Conflating X-ology with X-ogony is a pretty fundamental error in logic, but this is much how these arguments go: "We study the brain and the mind, and stuff happens, so the brain creates (or simply is) mind.  So far, that's how it seems to be."

This is a horrible misapplication of concept  of evidence.

The fact that brain damage results in mental changes is not evidence of the interlinkage of the two? Am I reading you right?

It sounds like you are asking a question about psychology, and not about psychogony. We know that if you change brain function, the qualitative nature of experience changes. What we do not know is at what level the most elemental componenets of mind emerge-- if they emerge at all.