What is the brain?

amalagaura

From these articles:
http://mindreality.net/is-your-brain-really-necessary
http://wintersteel.homestead.com/Life_Without_Brain.html

The only biologist to propose a radically novel approach to these questions is Dr Rupert Sheldrake. In his book A New Science of Life Sheldrake rejected the idea that the brain is a warehouse for memories and suggested it is more like a radio receiver for tuning into the past. Memory is not a recording process in which a medium is altered to store records, but a journey that the mind makes into the past via the process of morphic resonance.

I like this, the brain as a radio receiver instead of a big warehouse, interesting?

VEDA

Sanskrit 'citta', 'consciousness', is also translated as 'heart' or 'mind', not as 'brain'. Brain is just an interface. Memories are stored in the subtle body and accessed under the supervision of Paramatma. Look at the model described here: http://www.veda.harekrsna.cz/encyclopedia/tattvas-1.htm#2

amalagaura

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Yes, brain is the hardware, but what kind of hardware is it? It is common to think that our memories are stored there. After all, we don't have memories of anything before this brain! But using the brain as the radio receiver is very interesting, how this brain, gross physical thing can access the subtle physical elements of memory.

VEDA

sorry, http://www.veda.harekrsna.cz/encyclopedia/tattvas1.htm#2

Brain as a hardware doesn't do anything; it's the jiva's desire and Paramatma's concession.

amalagaura

That way even our legs don't do anything, we have the desire and Paramatma lets us walk. In fact the legs just get in the way.

VEDA

Yes. Legs, etc. are all interfaces for jiva to operate in the material world. Matter itself is jada, inert.

"Without the Supreme Personality of Godhead's energy, dull matter cannot create the cosmic manifestation. Its power does
not arise from the material energy itself but is endowed by Sankarsana." (CC 2.20.260)

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