The difference between mind and brain is that brain deals only with memorized, subjective, special-case experiences and objective experiments, while mind extracts and employs the generalized principles and integrates and interrelates their effective employment. Brain deals exclusively with the physical, and mind exclusively with the metaphysical.
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- The brain handles specific experiences, while the mind handles generalized principles and metaphysical integration.
- In plain terms
- Brain remembers specifics; mind finds general rules and deeper meaning.
- What can you take from it?
- Mind generalizes where brain memorizes.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- What does your mind do better?
- Is mind distinct from brain?
Another view
Brain and mind overlap in reality.
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