Good stuff there, Wolfgang. Agreed. The brain not only transmits and receives information from outside (and inside)...it processes and alters information and manufactures new information...like a computer.

However, it's not the physical brain that does that, it's the living energy that is making use of the physical brain (as an interface with the rest of the physical body) which does that. That living energy is the life force I was referring to. Some call it "the soul", and some call it "the mind" or "intelligence".

Now if you remove that living energy from the physical brain, the brain can no longer transmit, receive, process or alter anything. It can only decay. Just as when you turn off or unplug the computer (and remove its battery) it can no longer transmit, receive, process or alter information. It becomes inert.

Therefore, I submit that the physical brain is not the source of thought or intelligence or imagination, it is simply the mechanism through which thought passes along the conduits of the nervous system to the rest of the physical body. (Obviously, it's a very valuable mechanism for the purposes of being alive in a physical body.) Without it my fingers could not have been instructed to type this post.

- LH