Again, what else could *reasonably* make mind, other than brain?

Well, start with what constitutes a mind. Is it the neurons themselves? What does a neuron "mean"?

If it is not the structure of the brain, then perhaps it is the mental impressions and pictures we use to sort out who's who and what came from where and so on. Most people have HUGE collections of these images of mental impressions, which get called up for remembering, and used in calculations. If these are the mind (the content of it) then why assume they are generated by the brain rather than by the conscious spirit of the owner/operator of the brain? This model adds spirituality into the mix, which is of course anathema to those whose sole training in science is in materail practices and who cannot gettheir wits around non-material existence and reasoning about same, but that is not the point. For some people, you are a spiritual being having a phsyical adventure. For others you are purely a physical structure who occasionally has a spiritual delusion.

It is short-sighted, IMHO, to assume that one or the other of these views should be left out of the range of possibilities.

If by your question you mean "what other physical thing" could make the mind, there are possibilities. For example, the fields of themind might be electromagnetic waves hologramicazlly interpreted by the brain, not generated by it, a sort of sea of solitons generated by ... oh, wait, there we go again.. by folksingers!!! Voila!



A