There are a number of things that go on in the brain that no one seems to notice.
There are a number of things that go on in the brain that no one seems aware of –
not even those whose job it is to be so.
An entire new field of Cognitive Neuroscience has arisen whose stated aim is the understanding of mind, yet never are there more than a handful of people on this planet directly studying their own.
Within Philosophy there have been those who mused on the mind, but who tried to treat it as an objective, other-party phenomenon. Religion and Mythology had an initial interest, but eventually settled for allegories rather than understanding. Psychology began life as a study of mind, but after realizing what it had stepped into, quickly switched its focus to Behavior.
This is noted not as an attack on any of these quite normal intellectual and scientific activities, but rather to verbally establish a starting point for use in subsequent comparison – a step always necessary for mind and language to work, (in case you have never noticed).
As far as comparisons do go, Cognitive Neuroscience is the most revealing, in that it is new-in-name and makes full use of pertinent technology, and has as premise that mind is potentially, or surely in part, biological: simply another physiological operation of the brain, quite slippery and complex, but at root just another cellular activity.
J.