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The brain THINKS it created a mind but the brain is mistaken?
The brain perceives (mistakenly) a mind?
I think thats a pretty fair description.
IMO the starting position for understanding the brain is its basic fucntion, which is to coordinate inputs from the external environment and respond to them (or, to command responses to them, might be more precise). This implies that the brain must by dfault have an open channel to the external world - a perptual monitoring. Furthermore, in order to react reasonably to cuasality, the brain has to organise its inputs temporally even if they are perceived in different media.
The sense of self that we have that carries over from moment to moment is an accidental consequence of the engineering requirements of this sensory system, a system that is "always on" and "alway monitoring".
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