[disgruntledphd2]

From the article:And yet, we know today that it’s just not true. Biology is that things that makes you you. Genetics. Neurochemistry. There is no “mind” and “brain” — there’s just the brain.

This is speculation, albeit compatible with that of many scientists. We have no proof that mind/brain are the same thing, we have correlations between brain activity and subjective self reports, but these do not necessarily imply causation.

It annoys me when people assign extremely high probabilities to matters about which we, as a species, have very little understanding (even if I may agree with the particular viewpoint expressed).

[CMartucci]

Would you agree at least that, even if there is a mind, that it requires a brain in order to manifest itself, such that "mind-minus-brain" makes no sense at all?

[comsolo]

No because nobody has any idea what the 'soul' or 'mind' is. For all we know it may be possible to completely remove our soul from our body and exist in a different way and enter into another. Nobody knows