Timelapse-Mind Body Problem (Patreon)

Full Timelapse of "Mind Body Problem" with some music that I made.

the Mind Body Problem is the name for an old issue in philosophy regarding the relationship between our thoughts, subjective inner experience (consciousness) and our brains and physical bodies. 

It feels like our thoughts and consciousness are separate from our physical bodies. We are more identified with our thoughts. Our bodies are in some sense meat vehicles that our thoughts control. We have bodies, we aren't identical to our bodies. 

This is a deep instinct that we have as humans. Ideas about having a soul in some form or another stem from this intuition. And out of body souls are pretty much universal in every civilization. 

However, it is well understood at this point point that what we think of as our "self" depends almost entirely on the state of our brains. We know this because when brains are damaged in certain ways, people reliably start acting differently. If you damage one part of the brain you become aggressive. if you damage another part of the brain you might become more depressed. In other words, you can have a perfectly good soul, get brain damage, and gain the soul of a psychopath. 

Our minds are affected by our brains are affected by the state of our body. Don't judge my character by things I say and do when I'm hungry, as the saying goes.

Anyways, I was thinking about that stuff when I was naming this painting.