Originally Posted by Marie Monday

So let me try to explain it another way. The mistake you make is that you think that when someone says a brain is different from a mind, because both are linked to the same physical object, they must mean there's some other mystery ingredient to the mind than the pure physical thing. That's not true. Example: numerals and numbers are different things, even though they're linked to the same physical object, and there's no mystical stuff involved.