Is our soul, mind and personality only our brain or is it something more?

Answer 1

Differently developed and differently trained brains.

Answer 2

It is definitely something more than the brain. The brain is a purely material mass. However, a rock is also a purely material mass. There are obviously differences between a man and a rock (I use "man" in the classical, encompassing-both-genders sense,) signs of which are sensory powers, locomotion (the ability to move around under one's own power,) and for men, rationality. Therefore, the brain cannot account for the difference between a man and a rock because something physical cannot account for the non-accidental difference between two substances. Therefore, there must be something immaterial that accounts for the difference. This immaterial thing is called the "soul" (Latin: anima, from which we get "animate".) The soul is what separates a man from a corpse, which both have brains.

Answer 3

What's the difference between a dead body and a living body? Take out the soul of the body and you've got a dead body. The point is that we are the soul and we have a body. The mind and the intelligence are subtle parts of the body, instrumental for the soul. The brain is nothing more than an organ, similar to the liver or the kidneys. The soul is the essence of every being, it's spiritual and eternal. After coming in contact with matter, due to false identification, a material body, both subtle and gross, is formed around it. The soul is the living force, the body is it's material covering. BG 2.16: Those who are seers of the truth have concluded that of the nonexistent [the material body] there is no endurance and of the eternal [the soul] there is no change. This they have concluded by studying the nature of both. BG 2.17: That which pervades the entire body you should know to be indestructible. No one is able to destroy that imperishable soul.

Answer 4

The soul is what we really is, a spiritual entity.
The mind is a subtle material body that covers the soul.
Personality is the type of mind you have got accordingly to your consciousness and astrological influences (karma).
The brain as the rest of the body , is the gross material body that covers the soul.
Also we have the intelligence, another subtle body that covers the soul.

Answer 5

I believe it's all just the brain. I have no evidence for this, it just feels logical to me. I see no reason to believe that we have a 'permanent self' such as a soul; I believe we are forever changing, until we die, when our brains cease to function and therefore so do we.

If anyone can convince me that I'm wrong, I'd be delighted, but I doubt very much that they could.

Answer 6

I think it's rather like this: Your brain is the soul, mind and personality.
People lose their interest in life because they hear what they feel is all in their brains, but I think they underestimate it.
BRAIN IS UNDER-RATED
A lot of people think it can do amazing things, but even if it can't, I think it's a thing to marvel yourself at that we can think. Everything your brain does is brilliant, even being stupid. (I should know...)

Answer 7

It's a mystery. Someone looses a leg, is his soul diminished by that loss? My thinking is that the soul and the body are exquisitely integrated.

Know what would happen if you cut a Starfish in pieces? You get several Starfish. Amazing, isn't it?

Answer 8

on average we only use varying beetween beetween 8 and 13% of the brains full potential when explained like this you can see that there probably is more to the brain than we can possibly understand for a long time yet

Answer 9

Try John Eccles and Karl Popper The Self and its Brain for an answer to this.

Answer 10

It is only the Heart and everything in this universe revolves around the Heart because the heart is the abode of love and that is what directs your brain to its ultimate direction of thought and it is the capacity to love that moulds your personality. Without the heart one is nothing ...