(6.1) We have awareness of the existence of the phenomena of both mind as nimbus and matter as
corpus during the state of wakefulness.
(6.1.1) That part of our unus for which we are sentient by way of our physical senses of sight, sound, touch,
taste and smell we shall call corpus to avoid to confuse it with the broader meaning of matter of which it is composed.
(6.1.2) So as not to confuse it with other meanings of mind, that part of our unus for which we are not
sentient by way of our physical senses of sight, sound, touch, taste and smell we but are sentient by way of processes
in the physical brain, we shall call nimbus as an engrossment of our unus in a aurora of other than objective
sentience of sight, sound, touch, taste and smell. The creation, function and retention in memory of the objective
nimbus of mind not understood at present. Whatever if might be found to be, it is closely associated with the material
corpus of unus, especially the living brain and does not exist in the absence of it.
(6.1.3) We do not exclude the possibility that nimbus and corpus are either (a) part and parcel of each other or (b)
entirely independent of each other, existing as an unknown. However, no creditable evident of independence has been found.
(6.1.4) As mind does not exist without the matter of corpus, we do not exclude the possibility that
nimbus of "mind" is either a product and/or a process of corpus, existing as an unknown for which we
currently have no conclusive evident.
(6.1.5) We categorically reject the assertion that matter, including corpus, exists only as a nimbus of the
mind.
(6.1.6) We do accept the possibility that the nimbus of mind is a subjective experience of a mindful
process occurring in the material brain of corpus in the same sense that the perception of an apple sitting on
a table is a known mindful process.
(6.2) While the mind of one unus is private and thereby unknowable by another unus, sufficient indirect
evidence exists from observations of electrochemical activity in the matter of the brains of both that mind affects
the brain similarly in both to dismiss the concept that your own mind is the only existent mind.
(6.3) This philosophy posits that mind is an effect of the cause of electrochemical processes in the brain.
While being inseparable from it, the mind is not a material part of it. Rather it is a phenomenon resulting from the
action of physical processes in the brain that produce the nimbus of consciousness, emotion, qualia,
memory, and reasoning and is the cause that triggers the effect of actions or lack of actions in
the material corpus.
The production of the nimbus of mind and the storage of material memory are the primary functions of the brain.
Mmind can persist without consciousness but consciousness cannot persist with mind. Indeed, the mind is
entirely subjective and, unlike the objective brain, cannot be stored in a jar.
(6.4) The brain is not a digital computer that computes using mathematics and mathematical
logic. But the brain is a computer that computes using the input of sensory data and the
"hard-wired" logic of the neural cells that comprises it. Its functioning is entirely deterministic
depending upon the physical configuration of the neurons in the brain and the inputs of sensory data passed to them by
the external neural networks connected to the brain.
(6.4.1) Humans have long constructed such "brains" using sensory data; they are call analog
computers. A mechanical clock is such an analog computer for which the gears are the hard wiring producing the
logic, the mainspring and escapement mechanism producing the sensory data of the rhythmic ticks that drive the gears, and
produce the deterministic actions resulting in the position of the hour, minute and second hands on the dial of the clock as
output data. The human observer subsequently receives visual sensory data of their positions and interprets them in their
brain as knowledge of the number of intervals of time in hours and minutes since the sun changed its position
from directly above our heads, ie. the position we can "noon". Similarly, the human brain senses changes in sensory
data, process it with the "gears" in our physical brain, an subsequently causes the effect of our human
actions.
(6.4.2) With about 86 billion neurons in the human brain follow the wiring instructions encoded in the 3.2
billion base pairs of chemical compounds that compose our DNA, the human brain can be "hard-wired" in an incomprehensible large
number of uniquely different brains, producing an incomprehensible large number different of outcomes of inputs of sensory
data. Indeed, it is often said that, despite many similarities, every human is different from every other human. That any two
humans would behave in identically the same way is possible but the probability is incomprehensibly small to the human mind to
comprehend. Indeed, a personal doppelganger will not likely be found to exist in your lifetime.
(6) Mind is linked to mental processes within the brain of our corpus. Being of a subjective nature, mind has none of the objective material properties of unus. The subjective properties of mind vary widely among objective corpus of individual unus.