The Mind.

As mentioned before, controlling the brain is not possible and that, is a good thing.

How about our mind ? Is controlling our mind different than controlling our brain ?

To begin with, the brain and mind have different meanings by different cultural and religious traditions.

Philosophy, psychology, religion and science will give you different answers when trying to box these concepts.

It will be out of our scope to impose a definition that can settle the different views. Said that, it is possible to give some context to help us. Our goal is to create an organic understanding about the mind and brain relation.

In the context of this book, lets define mind as the areas of the brain susceptible to some control.

To be more precise, concepts such as focus, memory, thoughts, reasoning and judgments fall in that category. We have some control over these brain activities. Note that I have not added consciousness to the list, we will see why later.

Let's take our memory for example. Memory is an area of our brain that we can apply some control. Can we remember some of the things happened with us yesterday? Hopefully yes.

To give an opposite example, could we tell the last time we ordered a signal to our adrenal glands to produce more cortisone? Generally speaking, No! Such a thing is not our decision or susceptible to control, therefore not in our definition of the mind.

This distinction between brain and mind is a first step to understand how energy consumption affects our brain. If mind, for our context, is something we have some control over, then the energy bill can be addressed.

Next step is to explore some essential elements of our minds that impact energy consumption.

First is 'language', the gas-guzzler.

This book is an ongoing project. The content and the chapters may change before the final release.

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