What controls the brain/mind?

'Mind' is a faculty of the brain, just as 'digestion' is a faculty of the stomach. 'Digestion' happens to be a verb and 'mind' appears to be something else.

But the mind is volitional: 1. The act or an instance of making a conscious choice or decision.

2. A conscious choice or decision.

3. The power or faculty of choosing; the will. http://www.thefreedictionary.com/volitional

While it is true that the tabula rasa mind of a newborn is not morally volitional, it is volitional in the sense that it cannot NOT do what it must, and that is to 'figure out the world'. At first it's only 'who are those people' and 'why do wet diapers make me feel bad?' But eventually when the child has learned enough, his mind is volitional enough for him to choose to be bad or good, and even to quit thinking altogether. That is what happens to the mind of a child who is abused. They concentrate on the good, and shut down when it comes to the bad.

Adults can shut down too, because thinking is a volitional process. You can choose to remain sober and in charge while your wife is dying, or you can drown your mental processes in a bottle. That's what 'free will' is, the ability to choose to think, or not to think, in any given situation.

And when you drink or use drugs, you are not only attempting to make your mind quit working, you are attempting to make your brain stop working so that it will not cause your mind to remain functional.

People sometimes say all we are is chemicals. But what we think controls what chemicals are secreted--those of joy or those of terror; those of love or those of hate.

Gun control already exists. It is just a flawed system. Case and point, the background check system. You give practically all of your personal info to the dealer who calls it into the federal government, who then says yes or no. The issue is that the laws regarding background checks have been ignored. Since the brady law was passed in the 90's there have been only 4 convictions for falsifying the form, when there should be 100,000+. It really is hard to find a positive to gun control. Registration just gives more power to the .gov, who then (and has done this several times of late) releases the list of owners/carriers to the media who prints it. Jon Bobsteve @ 1999 buick lane owns 1 shotgun 12 handguns and a rifle. Oddly enough, those places tend to get broken into shortly after. I guess an upside to gun control is that it will increase violent crime, which will fuel another firearm ownership surge. After all, the supreme court ruled that the police have no duty to protect an individual, just investigate the crime after the fact. Either way, thats not much of an upside. I'd rather just not have an increase in gun control, and have more people alive and well.

Every thing to move requires a leg. Like that brain/mind requires a leg to move for which we use

the term of controlling.

For brain/mind the leg is the breathing process. Once one has control over the breathing process

automatically the movement of brain/mind is controlled.

Without the driver the vehicle can not move. In the same way the conceousness is the driver of

body/brain/mind etc.

Remember the tortois lives for 150 years because it breathes two to three times in a minute

whereas the dog lives 10 to 12 years because it breathes more then 25 times.

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"Human life is an action that takes place in three worlds; spiritual, intellectual, physical. Spiritual is supreme." - MMB

The following is quoted from a small book "Words of Wisdom and Power" by Murdo MacDonald-Bayne:

Mind and Brain interpenetrate each other, the mind is positive while the brain is negative.

Mind and brain react to each other, the one is indispensable to the other on this plane of existence. Impulses in the brain cells create action in the body. Life is continuous - man is dependent on life. Life is intelligence, mind in action, which operates upon the brain cells, and the brain cells in turn act upon the body. Cells vibrate either rapidly or slowly according to the ideas ...

do you no that the mystery of the mind is i'm afraid one mans biggest mysteries, i dont know if you no off a certain nueroscientist susan greenfield has studied this topic all her life, she knows far more than most about it, but try and put on the spot and ask her if she knows were the mind is situated, she is very honest and says she does not no, but in one of her books she said she was asked to give her eduacational thoughts, she made the point that she could only guess its spread through the brain, If anyone has an answer to this i would love to hear it

The mind and the brain are not one in the same.

They are two different things. The mind influences the brain.

The mind is self-controlling. The mind decides to move the hand on my keyboard, not higher control.

I am sorry, but I have to disagree.

We are emotional creatures, our basic matter is desire, craving for fulfillment. Our mind is only secondary to this great desire, helping to acquire and analyze the fulfillment.

The desire controls the mind.

discipline controls reactions and time and discomforts creates reactions such as a babies hunger or illness or soiled diapers so the brain is automatic in serve and protect the body from discomforts threw the feelings of discomforts

Genes and environment