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    Mindless Brain
    Mindless Brain
    Mindless Brain
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    Mindless Brain

    By Daphne Yakinthou

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    What is the mind? We undoubtedly realize that our brain is a biological machine, but what is the connection between mind and brain? Can the brain exist without the mind? And more importantly, can the mind exist without the brain? These questions will be the main focus of this essay. So let's dive in.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDaphne Yakinthou
    Release dateJan 16, 2021
    ISBN9781005538767
    Mindless Brain
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    Daphne Yakinthou

    Daphne Tzamali “Yakinthou” was born in Athens in 1981. From a very young age she showed an active imagination and loved creating stories that offered her the chance to give life to colorful characters embarking on exciting adventures. At the age of thirteen she wrote her first book, taught herself how to draw, while taking at the same time singing lessons to become an opera singer.At the age of twenty five she wrote and illustrated her first epic adventure for young people and decided to pursue a writing career. At 2012 she publishes with Ocelotos Editions “Astrozacharenia istoria”, the tale of the starsugary Ballerina and the clown Babolino and a year later “Grumpy’s lesson”, another story targeted at the same age group. She has also published many e-books in greek. Among them are the stories “I want to be a prince” “Dewdrop’s child”, “The crystal knight, “The blessed prince”, “The queen of lightning” and many more. She has also published with Fylatos Editions the e-book “The tale of the white harlequin”.Daphne Tzamali, pseudonym “Yakinthou”, is a member of the greek IBBY – International Board on Books for Young people.Today she is dividing her time between all her different artistic activities and her beloved pets. She is still living in Athens.

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      Mindless brain

      What is the mind? We undoubtedly realize that our brain is a biological machine, but what is the connection between mind and brain? Can the brain exist without the mind? And more importantly, can the mind exist without the brain? These questions will be the main focus of this essay. So let's dive in.

      The healthy brain is a functional prerequisite for life; we know this full well through observation and life experience. It is a biological machine able to compute, analyze, conceptualize, combine different elements into imaginative forms, govern the rest of our body, and so on. An injured or damaged brain is hindering our functionality and, more often than not, renders a man incapable of surviving. In that sense, we all can describe or conceive our brain's function in our everyday life.

      However, when it comes to the mind, a vastly more complex concept, many of us will not be able to put into words what it actually is and what makes it different from this intricate biological and corporeal machine we call the brain. In a sense, we can express the difference between the mind and the brain with a single

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