What is mind? The old gag answer, "No matter," is not good enough for medical science, but the experts still have a tough time explaining what little they know-of the relationship between mind and brain. Sir Russell Brain, one of Britain's top specialists in the workings of the nervous system, tackled the subject in a lecture at Cambridge University, which is published as The Contribution of Medicine to Our Idea of Mind (Cambridge University Press). He begins with a disclaimer and a definition: "I speak of the mind quite openly and unashamedly, not...
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