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If science has taught me anything it is that things are rarely (if ever) definite; they exist in a continuum or spectrum, and to define them as anything but the latter unjustly limits the concept. What do I mean by a spectrum? Well consider the idea of resonance in a molecule. In order to easily comprehend the structure of a molecule with resonance two or more structures are drawn in their most “extreme” forms. However the molecule exists in neither of these forms, but somewhere in and in between both simultaneously. This is how I am choosing to view the mind/brain argument; I am refusing to choose a “side”.  Instead I choose both and neither in tandem. I am proposing that the mind and brain are two functional systems that work with and feed off of each other. Their relationship is so intertwined that without one the other might not exist. This is not to say that I am disputing the arguments made for both mind and brain; it would be better stated that I disagree with the arguments made for either mind or brain.