If our MIND is created by our BRAIN, and the brain is physical, then you have to

Question:...that the mind is also physical?
Do you think that the senses are the physical foundations of our minds? And the mind cannot operate independently of the senses?
I am trying to tackle something bigger than my own intellect, and I need your help.

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: ...that the mind is also physical?
Do you think that the senses are the physical foundations of our minds? And the mind cannot operate independently of the senses?
I am trying to tackle something bigger than my own intellect, and I need your help.

You are absolutely right that the senses are the foundation.

"A sensation is produced by the automatic reaction of a sense organ to a stimulus from the outside world; it lasts for the duration of the immediate moment, as long as the stimulus lasts and no longer. Sensations are an automatic response, an automatic form of knowledge, which a consciousness can neither seek nor evade. An organism that possesses only the faculty of sensation is guided by the pleasure-pain mechanism of its body …

"The higher organisms possess a much more potent form of consciousness: they possess the faculty of retaining sensations, which is the faculty of perception. A "perception" is a group of sensations automatically retained and integrated by the brain of a living organism, which gives it the ability to be aware, not of single stimuli, but of entities, of things. An animal is guided, not merely by immediate sensations, but by percepts. Its actions are not single, discrete responses to single, separate stimuli, but are directed by an integrated awareness of the perceptual reality confronting it." [1]

See? You are not the first to have this idea. The Empiricists are guilty of saying it is ALL that we can know of any importance.
The Rationalists insist that it is the LEAST of what we can know.

[Philosophers came to be divided] "into two camps: those who claimed that man obtains his knowledge of the world by deducing it exclusively from concepts, which come from inside his head and are not derived from the perception of physical facts (the Rationalists)—and those who claimed that man obtains his knowledge from experience, which was held to mean: by direct perception of immediate facts, with no recourse to concepts (the Empiricists). " [2]

A mind totally cut off from the senses would cause a man to go insane. The rare child born without senses dies within hours. The mind can operate without the senses for only a few hours.

[3] is a freebie. Good luck.

How can you be sure that our mind is created by our brain?

Could it not be created by our brian, our soul and the instruction of others?

You will LOVE this video about the brain. It is several minutes in that she gets into the interesting stuff. It is well worth every minute! One of the coolest things I've ever seen.

http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/229

Neuroanatomist Jill Bolte Taylor had an opportunity few brain scientists would wish for: One morning, she realized she was having a massive stroke. As it happened -- as she felt her brain functions slip away one by one, speech, movement, understanding -- she studied and remembered every moment. This is a powerful story about how our brains define us and connect us to the world and to one another.

It seems to be beyond all our intellects, so try not to get to anxious about it. Personally, I think defining the mind as something that is created by our brain is questionable in itself. If you can prove or explain how it is created through an analogy it might be good. The mind may be what creates the idea of our universe and everything could merely be a perception. I like to think of everything being energy. E=mc2 shows the relation, if you want to look at thing from a purely rationalist perspective.

The 'MIND' is your body's conscious "eye" that observes the world with the senses.
The 'BRAIN' is a physical arrangement of matter that contains memories of senses and thoughts [of].

Your brain is an amazing organ it controls our muscles, respiration, pulmonary function and a host of other lesser known functions, but it does not think.

Thought is a function of mind that exists independent of anything physical. What appears to be the brain thinking in brain function imaging and other brain measuring attempts is only blood flow being measured to the part of the brain that acts as an interface between the mind and the body. This is the secondary function of the brain after regulating bodily functions. It acts as the interface, or the mind body connection.

Without it there would be no way for the nonphysical mind to exert any control over the physical body.
It is interesting that science has done its best to overlook this fact for so long. The silly idea that thought is some magical function of some mysterious electrochemical reaction is so vague as to be hilarious. There are several ways to disprove this theory beyond any shadow of a doubt.

Being nonphysical in source your mind is in no way effected by the death of the body and loss of the mind body interface, or brain.

Love and blessings.
don

Mind is functioning through brain only. Peripheral mind is functioning using the senses (five ) & brain only.Deep thoughts are comming with out the use of senses only by the imprints in the brain. Mind is the bio-magnetic wave generated by the spinning action of life energy particles.