Dr. Caroline Leaf argues the mind is an energetic force that animates the brain and body, which make up only 1-10% of a person's true self. She describes the mind as a gravitational field surrounding the physical form, the essential element that distinguishes living from dead.
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your brain and body disintegrates. They go. They can't do anything. But the fact that right now you and I are able to have a conversation and people are listening and watching, that means that what is the thing that's a difference between an alive person and a dead person? It's the mind. The mind's the difference. So the mind is your aliveness, this energetic force. I'm holding up another model now of the brain and the body, a typical sort of medical model of the brain and the body. And the brain and the body collectively would be about 1 to 10% of who we are. But the brain brain and the body are energized or made alive by the mind. So the mind is this gravitational field around and through the brain and the body. And before people think, wow, that's weird, this is 150-year-old science.