Vehicle Traffic Metaphor

Which came first, the chicken or the egg? Recently a friend and I were discussing the various theories about that question. Then we wondered, which came first, the brain or the mind? Does the brain create the mind or does the mind create the brain? Is the mind an organ of the brain much as the stomach is an organ of the digestive system? What is your take on this?
 

There will likely never be 100% consensus, seeing as every brain on the planet is different. There is some emerging consensus, however, that the brain creates the mind and that this process can begin quite early in gestation. For purposes of discussion, let’s say that the brain creates the mind; but then the mind can impact and even change the brain. I like the ‘vehicle-traffic metaphor’ to describe that phenomenon. Vehicles create traffic. In turn, the vehicles can be hampered or impeded by the traffic—something the vehicles created to begin with. More tomorrow.