It's sometimes said that the greatest remaining scientific questions today are:
1. What caused the Big Bang?
2. What is the grand unified theory (GUT) that integrates quantum mechanics and general relativity?
3. What is the relationship between the mind and the brain, especially regarding consciousness experience?
The last question is up there with the first two because it is as difficult to answer, and as important.
It can still take many years before we completely understand the relationship between the brain and the mind, but meanwhile a reasonable working hypothesis is that the mind is what the brain does.
(from Rick Hanson: Buddha's Brain)
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