[AntonioLao]

What is it about our individual existence that keeps us from knowing we are who we are? A constant self reminder that when we wake up in the morning from a good (bad) night sleep we are still the same person the day before, even though we are a day older, losing a few brain cells or losing a few strands of hairs or losing (gaining) a few kilograms. It gives us a sense of our individual identity.

The answer is obvious. Still it could appear surprising to some people. That it is the individual proximity of the mind in the brain. The mind could never truly connect to the brain. Similarly, water and oil could never become one inseparable substance but only in colloidal states. The fact is brain is made of matter (quarks and leptons) while the mind is of energy or at its most complete states square of energy. In the final analysis, all matter and energy are just squares of energy (quanta of space-time).

However, when the mind is a little bit farther apart from the brain, the physical body ceases its active vigorous functions and goes into deep idleness. When the mind–brain separation reaches a threshold distance or a point of no return, disconnect is permanently the eternal slumber of physical death or matter death. Nevertheless, the decomposition of matter (e.g. proton decay) is just a prelude for the liberation of the mind from the brain that is the search for freedom (becoming one independent being) is a universal preoccupation. This search becomes all the conservation laws and invariance principles of nature in the physical sciences as well as in the life sciences involving both objectivism and subjectivism.

[mkirkpatrick]

Is there a place where mind is absent from,I think not.awareness,consciousness
expansion of perception,the brain can only act and interprit the ideas on mind.
The difficulty that presents itself is that unless you can think in wholes,then it
does not make sense.consciousness is everywhere,and is in itself ominipresent,
mind is within this consciousness,and we as (apparent seperate beings)live and move and have our being within this field,all of life is Absolutely-Totally-inter-
connected,and unified,a unified field of consciousness,all life is within this field.all minds,so unless we can think in wholes,picture life in wholes,then we will
only find confusing fragments of manifestation,and miss the whole scene.we need to understand that all is mind,all is consciousness,we as human beings have a greater expression of consciousness and have a brain to focus it with.
but lesser things also have consciousness,like a stone,but without the brain.the
only real difference between you and the stone,is that you are self-aware and
express more of mind,in essence we are the same,and if that connection is broken then the whole equation will not reveal itself.
kind regards michael.

[Guille]

This is a very fundamental philosophical question. It was anciant to those that we call anciant, socrates, plato and aristotle. For them, it was babilonian, or evene arlier, mesopotamian thought. And for mesopotamian thinkers, the earliests to live in a civilisation together, it was anciant.

Recent bio-chemical investigations have discovered that the body's atoms are all different, absolutelly all of them, after 7 years. So in 7 years not a single atom of my body will be the same as the atom now. In fact, an atom may come from a cat excrement, a supernova, or hitler's burned ashes.