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I think that the mind and the brain are separate yet the same simultaneously.  To me when I think about the brain, I think of a large organ that is the battery of the entire body.  It keeps everything functioning and when anything is disconnected from the battery it stops working as it should.  The mind, even though is a function of the brain, is focused more on the humanistic characteristics people have like thoughts and feelings.  I can understand now even better that because each brain is shaped and wired in slightly different than another brain resulting in many different thoughts and feelings and personalities, but it is the common patterns that these brains encounter that make people able to recognize those similarities in human behavior.  The example with Christopher Reeves left me confused.  Why would his toe move if it has no connections left to the brain? Does that mean that if his leg was stimulated in a certain way (significantly enough) he could move his entire leg or is it just the toes?