How Does the Human Mind Work?

  One of the biggest mysteries that philosophy, psychology, and neuroscience are trying to solve is how the human mind works. The philosopher John Locke once said that a baby’s mind is like a blank slate. Sigmund Freud compared this entity to an invisible mechanism of hydraulic and electromagnetic systems. Today, cognitive psychologists like Steven Pinker tell us that the mind is a neural computer. Conceiving this idea allows us to separate it from the brain and see it as an entity that makes information flow and defines, in turn, the person you are. We could say that it’s the…