Excuse me, but we do not know that the brain makes the mind; we know that they are coupled, and many of us assume therefore the one makes the other.

The analogy that comes to mind is the notion that the cell phone makes up messages, or the television is full of little people. The connection is possibly misidentified.

I use the word alleged because the reports are, for the most part, anecdotal, recorded by non-scientists; but they seem genuine enough. Furthermore, in some of the case histories I have read it is extremely unlikely the individual would have been exposed to the data through any other identifiable means. I don't mind whether you accept this opinion or not.

There is very little in the human mind that has been subjected to the kind of rigorous evidentiary processes you have in mind. Rough correlations between dreams and sleep, and some tests about some brain areas mapping to some mental reactions, have been done, but nothing you could call definitive. as far as I know.

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