Mind's Data Base and Its Analysis

Mind exists. Structure exists. Mind is dependent upon and influences struc­ture. Mind cannot be found localized to structure. Mind cannot be explained by structure alone. Could Mind exist apart from, but dependent upon, structure? This hypothesis would certainly be consistent with the clinical and experimental observations and data pertaining to Mind.

Perhaps a quotation from Eccles (1970, pp. 3–4) will prove helpful as a baseline for the analysis of Mind's background roots:

Every perception, thought and memory… has as its material counterpart some specific spatio-temporal activity in the vast neuronal network of the cerebral cortex and sub-cortical nuclei, that is woven of neuronal activities in space and time in the "enchanted loom."

If, indeed, mental events have their counterpart and are woven of neuronal activities in space and time within the "enchanted loom," then may we postulate that neuronal activity may be woven in external synaptic space and time? And if neuronal activities can be woven in external "synaptic" space and time, then would perhaps a simple and heretofore denied solution exist as to the structure, site, and action of Mind? Mind could thus be conceptualized as an external electromagnetic spatial-temporal field configuration and computer, which is derived from and dependent upon structure, and yet exists independent of structure.

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