Mysteries of Mind- A Scientific Enquiry

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I f our minds were easy to understand, we wouldn't have been so smart. Paradoxically, we try to use our intelligence to study what gives us intelligence, which is a daunting task. Human mind is such a complex topic that writing anything about it is more likely to be wrong than right. This inexact science is not even recognised as a formal discipline of study. It is said that in science, nothing can ever be proven to be absolute truth. It can only be proven 'not to be false' at a particular time. Hence, the fundamental principle of scientific theory is falsifiability', which means that any theory must run the risk of being proven wrong through counter experimentations. Newton's law is 'falsifiable' because tomorrow if someone comes with an observation that objects don't follow the law, we will have to junk those principles. For science, the thumb rule is very simple; if something can't be potentially wrong, it can never be right. Progressively, we pick the

Prevailing truths and falsify them to find out the new truths.

What can be said about the mind is it falsifiable? We have never studied about the mind in our schools, even for advanced medical science, the mind is a very nebulous topic: it is elusive. It is not governed by the natural laws of physics or biology. If you don't know the quantum theory, you will not be able to understand the sub-atomic world. Unfortunately, we don't yet have elementary tools to scientifically nail how the mind works. Since we don't know the alphabets, there is no way we can learn the language. With so many unknowns, the intellectual approach to address this topic has been to deny its existence, and that is why formal science almost never ventures into this territory. Scientists talk about the brain and stop at saying that the mind is a special construct of the brain, and it does not have its own existence.