Hmm, interesting, so you see it as the mind doesn't have a "physical anchor" so you believe it is faster because it is free from the restrictions of the material unlike the brain? Correct me if I'm wrong.
Not exactly
But why do you think mental images are in the mind only and not both?
I'd say that :
- the mind is a bit like the astral or ethereal part of our brain
- the brain is a computer
- our ego is the sensation "to be", our internal look of all of these but its nature is psychological (a bit fake).
The brain is blind by itself, unable to understand. It just computes. When it receives and analyzes data from senses and body, the electrical flux it generates has a magnetic counterpart I call "mind".
[The fact an electrical current has a magnetic counterpart is a basis of physics]
This magnetic level has also an incidence on the brain, generating an other data flux. Thoughts move on this magnetic level.
The whole act like a complex regulator.
Electronic regulator are based on retro action (output is redirected on input).
The circuit emits something via an amplifier or a comparator to drive a device (a motor), then the output of a captor (ex: speed) is redirected - via a filter - to the input of the system. So you stabilize the speed of the motor and adjust the setpoint with a tension, modify the sensibility by adjusting the filter...
I see the brain as being made up of thousands of systems like this, all trying to stabilize something.
hormones, senses, mind... act on the brain which analyze and stabilize all.
The resulting ego of these mechanics may or may not find the current situation pleasant and has the "power" to focus the activity on this or that and has the position to act on the wheel.
But all the above is about engineering, no real intelligence in it because is related to the senses and physical things.
Another world
full of abstract objects in interaction each others is the
mind level.
If someone has a healthy brain able to bring the mind + an ego which feels pleasant to play with the mind, this one is intelligent.
The more the ego plays with the mind and its abstract objects, the more the brain is trained to servicing the mind, the more the
brain hardwires faculties like counting, reading, searching in books...
Conversely, the more the ego plays with situations like watching porn, consuming drug... the more the brain over activate basic functions, the less the mind grows.... the more the individual become stupid.
To end, if you have to imagine a blue circle on a green background, the ego asks to the brain to activate the appropriate circuitry set up with the parameters "circle, background, blue and green" to generate in its magnetic field the picture, then the ego has to constraint the brain to maintain this state to look the picture appearing in the mind.