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Mind, heart, and soul are brain function.  That is a subject of science.  What is called the mind is actually a dynamic process of brain function.

I suggest it would be more accurate to say that mind, heart, soul are the results of brain functions.  Think on it some.

Yes you could all them woo because they are names for things that are nonphysical.      (not referring to our organs here!)

Which is exactly the point I’m trying to make.  The products of our minds functions are something other.  Yes its true new instruments can gauge the physical aspect of thinking with increasingly amazing detail and accuracy – but that doesn’t take away from the fundamental reality that our swarm of thoughts is something fundamentally different from the fabric that makes up the universe.

 

There are no aspects of human thought are off limits to scientific study, none whatsoever.

You choose to misunderstand.  I didn’t say anything about making anything off limits to scientific study.  This is more about gaining a more sober respect of the supremacy of physical reality over the machinations of our ever so fertile human minds.

Oh and scientific study itself is something outside the realm of regular material physical reality and Earth’s evolution marching along its way – though it is confined by material reality – and yes its true the products of ‘our mind’s science’ have had extraordinary impacts upon our planet and the path of her evolution.

Specifically, the Magisteria of Physical Reality vs the Magisteria of our Human Mindscape.

In this perspective we acknowledge that Earth and her physical processes and the pageant of evolution are the fundamental timeless touchstones of reality.  Part of Earth’s physical reality is that we humans were created by Earth out of her processes.    . . .  https://confrontingsciencecontrarians.blogspot.com/2018/12/the-missing-key-gould.html

It you be fun to imagine you actually taking the time to read the entire essay –  there’s also a longer version that’s more biographical and touches on how these thoughts developed – “Bringing it back to Earth Centrism“.