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Although at the moment I doubt that my brain is wider than the sky, I agree with Emily Dickinson, Crick and Ramachandran. My brain and my mind are one, I don't see my mind as a separate being and I firmly believe that my brain is responsible for all of my understanding, comprehension and imagining. It is amazing that a lump of tissue can be responsible for so much, but I am definitely not on the fence about this one. My 18 year old brain has been making observations both consciously and without my conscious focus and those observations inform my actions and decisions. I also believe that those actions that may seem to me irrational or unconscious in fact are informed by my nervous system. Its nice to have both a beautiful poem describing this and two respected scientists who agree with it 150 yrs later, that Dickinson could predict the trend of scientific thought on this issue is astounding.