Not only can the patterns of neural activity when specific thoughts occur be identified, but this information has also been used to communicate with patients with locked-in syndrome, who are unable to make any voluntary movements. It is also possible to identify what letter or number someone is thinking of by scanning the visual cortex.For example pain is immaterial, but it exists as we all know very well. Or thoughts. You can locate neurons in the brain, but not thoughts they correlate to.
Pain is a conscious sense experience (qualia) that occurs when particular areas of the brain are stimulated while consciousness is active - IOW, it's what it is like for us, when those neurons are active.
Are you really suggesting that pain, our sensation of the specific activities of specific neurons in the brain, is the same kind of thing as spirit?
The pain pathways have been pretty thoroughly mapped - here's a video introduction:
It's more accurate to say that the mind is what the brain does. IOW brain activity constitutes the mind. Every detectable or reportable aspect of the mind and consciousness has been shown to depend on brain activity, including high-level features such as personality, opinions, moral & social values, personal preferences, etc. All these can be changed, either subtly or radically, by modifying brain activity.Yes, it correlates, as brain is the physical "mirror" of the mind.
Experience is what happens when we integrate all the information from our internal bodily organs with external sensory data. Our experiential world is a prediction, continually corrected by incoming sensory data. For example, the high-res, full colour, 3D, wide-angle image of the world you see is not what your eyes send to your brain, it's a predictive construct your brain generates (i.e. a guess). The data from the eyes don't have the bandwidth or quality to directly produce that full image, instead, it's mainly used to correct the prediction, which is what you experience.Experience cannot be a function of brain in the similar manner as photons running on the eye's retina is not the mental image we actually see.
Not sure what you mean by that...There is a clear distinction between what happens in the material and immaterial world and no connection between the two was found till today, I think. They just "somehow" mysteriously work together.
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