Reply to article by: Doktor DynaSoar <targeting@OMCL.mil>
Date written: Sun, 15 Feb 2004 05:12:08 -0500
MsgID:<23hu20lhjgb74utn5l8n7qa5mjbf293msc@4ax.com>

Psychologists are all very aware of the fact that the mind deceives us. 

Who is "us"? Are we not our minds?
Either you mean our minds and our selves are not the same persons,
or we deceive ourselves.

The mind is only a *property* of the brain, therefore it only can "exist" as a
behavior, not as something physically real that you can hold in your hands or
observe under a microscope. So if you like, I can rephrase that to say,
"Psychologists are all very aware of the fact that the processing of the brain
deceives us".

If the former, how did they get split?
If the latter, why would we do that?

Since the mind is not actually a physically real entity, there was never
anything to split.

What a psychologist would say is more like "Because our minds
construct perceptions and reconstruct memories from a minimum of
content plus the functions of gestalt. they are fallable in both
perception and memory." At least this psychologist would. He darn sure
wouldn't make it sound like our brains were working on their own and
against us, which makes me wonder why he's talking in the third
person.

What a psychologist would say is that the brain very much works on it's own, as
modern day research is proving it does, and a typical example of where it does
so is with a psychological "complex" or the "unconscious".

BTW, "mind" is a verb. It is what "brain" does.

Actually, the mind as used in all of the above dialog is a noun and not a verb.
http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=mind&r=67

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