All thoughts arise is the mind only. But what do we understand by mind? Is it the same as the brain. Is mind a physical organ? If we believe that it is a physical organ, then, we have to assume that mind is the same thing as the brain. Is the mind really the same thing as the brain?
Sir John Eccles, Nobel prize winner for medicine, does not believe that the capabilities of the mind are merely the sum of the capabilities of nerve cells, dendrites, synapses and neurotransmitters (quoted in "Your Maximum Mind", Herbert Benson). Mind is not simply a biological capability. He feels that some account of the evolutionary characteristics and genetic inheritance must also enter into the making of the mind.
Canadian neurosurgeon, Penfield wrote in "The Mystery of the Mind" (quoted in "Your Maximum Mind" by Herbert Benson), that it is not possible to explain away the working of the mind simply on the basis of electrical and chemical actions of the central nervous system. He further feels that the brain is a computer that is programmed by some thing outside it the mind. Some experts now are, thus, beginning to suspect that mind and brain are not synonymous, but science has not yet come to any definitive conclusions. We have to look else where for the answer. Vedaanta has the answer.
The next thought is about, What is this mind?
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