Couple of Quotes Regarding the Nature of Mind

Exert from The Pleasure of Finding Things Out by Richard Fenyman:

"For instance, the scientific article says, perhaps, something like this: 'The radioactive phosphorus content of the cerebrum of the rat decreased to one-half in a period of two weeks.' Now what does that mean? It means that the phosphorus that is in the brain of a rat (and also in mine, and in yours) is not the same phosphorus as it was two weeks ago, but that all of the atoms that are in the brain are being replaced, and the ones that were there before have gone away.

So what is this mind, what are these atoms with consciousness? Last week's potatoes! That is what we can remember, what was going on in my mind a year ago - a mind which has long ago been replaced.

That is what it means when one discovers how long it takes for the brain to be replaced by other atoms, to note that the thing which I call my individuality is only a pattern or dance. The atoms come into my brain, dance a dance, then go out; always new atoms but always doing the same dance, remembering what dance was there yesterday."

Another interesting quote:

"Every action starts from an intention in the implicate order. The imagination is already the creation of the form; it already has the intention and the germs of all the movements needed to carry it out, and it affects the body, and so on, so that as creation takes place in that way from the subtle levels of the implicate order, it goes through them until it MANIFESTS in the explicate. In other words, in the implicate order, as in the brain itself, IMAGINATION AND REALITY are ultimately indistinguishable, and it should, therefore, come as no surprise to us that images in the mind can ultimately manifest as realities in the physical body".

~From "Wholeness and the Implicate Order" By David Bohm