Theists, What Would It Take For You To Lose Your Faith?

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Chadwooter's answer still confuses me. Is he saying that he doesn't believe that thoughts, opinions and emotions originate in the brain? Isn't the mind just another word for the brain?

In all fairness to Chad that would be begging the question since that's the point at issue. It isn't an analytic truth because there isn't a real clear agreed upon definition of the word mind, which makes it pointless to argue over. Why argue over ill-defined concepts? I don't see how any one can hope to explain something that hasn't been defined well enough to explain. If people can't agree on what they are all trying to explain something is wrong.
People need to come up with better questions if these kind of disputes never end. Maybe we are asking the wrong questions.

Here is a book on that topic. I've only read the first chapter, because it is a bit over my head. Others might find it interesting:

The authors' controversial approach repudiates the conventional theory of human consciousness as a material epiphenomenon that can be fully explained in terms of physical brain processes and advances the mind as an entity independent of the brain or body. They advance an alternative “transmission” or “filter” theory of the mind-brain relationship.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irreducible_Mind