Mindfulness or Mindlessness?

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Mind is an emergent property of the brain's neuron activity.

So it would seem. But by what mechanism? This is where the great mystery lays.

If the mind is an emergent property of the physical activity of the brain, it is produced in accordance with a set of physical laws.

But what laws are those? We have absolutely SQUAT! NOTHING! ZILCH!

Imagine telling a scientist from the year 1800 that the sun has been burning for 4.5 billion years and that it had that much more time to burn before shrinking to a white dwarf. The scientist would have no way to make any sense of that because in his world, there is no known principle of physics that would make that possible. He would have to deduce that the sun burns by a mechanism unknown to him.

That's where we are right now regarding mind. However it is produced, it is something that is beyond our current knowledge. We've got nothing more than speculation. Just like the hypothetical scientist from 1800 trying to figure out how the sun is powered, we can only conclude that there must be a layer of physics beyond our current understanding. Because what we've got now cannot remotely explain HOW physical activity in the brain somehow results in the emergence of mind.