Mind, Body, World (Nonfiction: Psychology, 83,000 words). We are the minds that know themselves. Other animals act in the world with practical knowledge, but humans ask, "What does it mean?" We know that our minds are connected to our bodies and therefore to the world, but how? Science does not know how it is possible. No mind-detectors exist.Minds are made of non-physical things like thoughts, images, hopes, and feelings. The body has size, shape, and weight. If you dissect a brain, you do not find any thoughts. You see only gray and white tissue. You see no words, songs, pictures, memories, or colors. Where did the mind go?To solve this puzzle, basic assumptions about the mind, the body, and the world must be questioned. The solution presented is dizzying but opens new avenues of thinking. Bill Adams (writing as William X. Adams and William A. Adams) is a cognitive psychologist who left the academic life for the information technology industry to find out if the mind is like a computer. He writes nonfiction in philosophical psychology, and psychological science fiction to dramatize what he discovered. He lives in Tucson, Arizona.
