Do you think you have a brain or does your brain actually think?

Question

And how would you really know?

Answer 1

I think I have a thinking brain, because I am aware of the thoughts it is contemplating on.

Because I have always been able to access my thoughts with consciousness, I expect it to be my brain.

What I know of about brains are consistent with my experiences that I am getting, so I know my brain is functioning and thinking is one of its many functions.

If one could consider that consciousness is another set of functions directing the lower functions of the brain, then we could begin to see that our brains are operating on different levels. More complex thoughts could be generated, yet all of them supported by the same set of organs.

Answer 2

Brain does not "think" your mind thinks. Here is my argument for Brain states being different from mind states:

Consider this: All human feeling are completely internal and are not possible to describe. Two people might say that they feel pain in the left knee -- but how do we know that their pain is the same? This question is not resolvable by science. Even if one were to understand the brain perfectly -- on would still not experience what the owner of the brain experiences.

Consider the case of color-blind neurosurgeon. He might know everything about perception of color -- he might know everything there is to know about color. YET he will never know what it is like to perceive color.

So brain states are not the same as the state of MIND or perceptions.
So the Brain does not "think"

Answer 3

Do you think a computer has a brain or does the brain of computer, CPU, actually think?

And how would the computer really know?

Answer 4

I have a brain to think.

Answer 5

I don't know the voices are so loud in my head, who has time to think?

Answer 6

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