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Your
Brain is the centerpiece of your existence. Functionally, it can be split into
two distinct categories that complement each other in all activities of your
day.
 The Whole Brain
The power behind that lump of nerves.
The Brain that powers you, its core, and its services all add up to one important fact: that it just can't survive without you, and you can't work without it. This mesh of flesh is one of the most complex organs in your body, and also one of the most responsive. It is a thing that can be weighed, measured, looked at, and studied. On the surface, most human brains look pretty much the same: light-pink-and-grayish-white, wrinkled, and squishy.
 The Whole Mind
The force beyond simple recognition of words.
Your
mind is open and free. Free to think whatever it wants, with your express permission
of course. You are your mind, and your mind is all of you. It is a window into
all that is thought, and uses the physical attributes of your brain to function.
You can't pick up a mind, toss it into a jar, and label it. Humans are conscious
beings. We share a common experience of a sense of self, of conscious awareness
- a trait some believe is uniquely human - yet the quest to explain consciousness
is one of the last remaining great adventures of science and philosophy.
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"Wherefore the heart and the diaphragm are particularly sensitive, they have nothing to do, however, with the operations of the understanding, but of all these the brain is the cause.
" -- Hippocrates (about 400 B.C.; quoted in Minds Behind the Brain. A History of the Pioneers and Their Discoveries by S. Finger, 2000)
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