Which came first, the mind or the brain? Today most neurologists and cognitive scientists suggest that it was the human brain that evolved first, undergoing a series of changes over millions of years that led to its increased size and complexity. The mind, on the other hand, developed as a latter part of this process, providing human beings with a level of consciousness unknown in other species. Brain functions such as perception and memory come together to constitute this sense of self, shaping the way a person experiences the world and also how she projects herself into it. The mind's eye, to keep someone in mind, to mind a friend's behaviour, to mind the gap-the mind is where our awareness is as we navigate through a world both within us and without.
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