Mind Without Brain: Awards Finalist!

Mind Without Brain, a short (159 pp) nonfiction essay, is a finalist for the best nonfiction of 2021 at Next Generation Indie Book Awards (https://indiebookawards.com)! Any time an essay in philosophical psychology wins a prize, you know it has to be special. What’s it about? Here’s a description:

Is the mind the same thing as the brain? Not at all. The brain is an organ, three pounds of protein, fat, and water. It is no different in principle than a kidney or a liver. The mind, though, is made of ideas, hopes, images, memories, words. Those weigh nothing, take up no space. They’re not even physical.

Does the brain produce the mind? It can’t. There is no scientific theory of how a physical organ could produce a non-physical idea. The brain and the mind are related, but we don’t know how.

This nonfiction book describes the mind without pretending it is a puppet of the brain. It proposes a structure and operating principles for how the mind works without using biological explanation. That lets us understand mental experience on its own terms.

Mind Without Brain: A Proposal is the second in a trilogy of monographs exploring the nature of the mind and its relationship to the body. Get it in ebook or paper: