I genuinely thought this might be of interest.
- The building blocks of the human mind
- How our bodies influence our thoughts and feelings
- The illusions our minds create
- How to think about problems of the mind
- The secrets to better mental health
May have some interesting information in it. Found some really useful information when researching:
What is your mind?
It’s a strange question, perhaps, but if pressed, you might describe it as the part of yourself that makes you who you are—your consciousness, dreams, emotions, and memories. Scientists believed for a long time that such aspects of the mind had specific brain locations, like a circuit for fear, a region for memory, and so on.
But in recent years we’ve learned that the human brain is actually a master of deception, and your experiences and actions do not reveal its inner workings.
Your mind is in fact an ongoing construction of your brain, your body, and the surrounding world.
In every moment, as you see, think, feel, and navigate the world around you, your perception of these things is built from three ingredients.
One is the signals we receive from the outside world, called sense data. Light waves enter your retinas to be experienced as blooming gardens and starry skies. Changes in pressure reach your cochlea and skin and become the voices and hugs of loved ones. Chemicals arrive in your nose and mouth and are transformed into sweetness and spice.
A second ingredient of your experience is sense data from events inside your body, like the blood rushing through your veins and arteries, your lungs expanding and contracting, and your stomach gurgling. Much of this symphony is silent and outside your awareness, thank goodness. If you could feel every inner tug and rumble directly, you’d never pay attention to anything outside your skin.
Finally, a third ingredient is past experience. Without this, the sense data around and inside you would be meaningless noise. It would be like being bombarded by the sounds of a language that you don’t speak, so you can’t even tell where one word ends and the next begins. Your brain uses what you’ve seen, done, and learned in the past to explain sense data in the present, plan your next action, and predict what’s coming next. This all happens automatically and invisibly, faster than you can snap your fingers.
These three ingredients might not be the whole story, and there may be other routes to create other kinds of minds—say, in a futuristic machine. But a human mind is constructed by a brain in constant conversation, moment by unique moment, with a body and the outside world.
The link to the rest of the article is here (there is also a video to save reading it).
Wow, after reading the "article, what is the mind", I followed the link to one of the books that Lisa Feldman had written and as soon as did, I thought, that cover looks familiar and sure enough it was the one I bought for my son last year, following some podcast or the like,. Think it was on the resource list, possibly one from the Migrane Summit 2023 I chose to watch.
Anyway, I am rambling as my son would say. As he has barely touched it I will read it 
The link is;
lisafeldmanbarrett.com/book...
Pretty sure I bought mine from Amazon.
Thank you. On my reading list now.
Watch this video, this shows real life stories of people who have overcome FND symptoms and how emotions play a big part, esp suppressed ones:
ones:neurosymptoms.org/en/media/...
Thank you for all your input. You are Superstar. Top of my watch list.
Lady4 Fascinating. Many thanks again for all your input.
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