The mind projects itself out to where the thing is that we perceive with our physical senses. Our extraneous mind, the I, can be likened to the invisible force field that appears when iron filings are scattered over a bar magnet.

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​Jean Piaget, a Swiss researcher, discovered that it's only with modern materialistic indoctrination that people come to believe their mind is in their heads.
 
Primitive cultures and children under the age of about ten think that their unique self extends out into the world around them.

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​Wilder Penfield, a neurosurgeon who researched brain mapping, concluded that people commonly thought of themselves as having an existence separate from the body.
 
Egyptians, who noticed how much heat escapes from the head, believed the brain was a cooling organ. They unceremoniously dug it out of the skull through the nose in preparation for mummification. To them, having felt the heartbeat continuously and dynamically alive, and emotions emanating from their chest, like "heart aches," considered the heart a far more important organ for housing the conscious self.

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Recent research confirms that the heart is like another brain with capabilities beyond those of being a mere pump.
 
Such research and the beliefs of the Egyptians and ordinary people everywhere, reflect the fact that the I cannot be reduced to any one physical component of the body.
 
Think back to your earliest memories of self. The person you recollect will be the same one you are now and at any point in life. People who live to be over a hundred still think of themselves as the same person they were as a small child. Skills, knowledge, memories, wisdom, regrets, and pangs of conscience accumulate. But they do not displace the free-willed person we always recognize as the person who made choices.
 
Although the brain's abilities increase with age, the inner person does not result from the growth of a brain. It does not grow old, nor begin young. Our identity does not change no matter how long we live or what food we eat to make our continuously regenerating brain.
 
Everyday language reflects the sense that we are other than body. We say "my foot," "my heart," "my brain," "my thoughts," "my choice," ...
  
The "my" is the real, conscious, immaterial, and self-aware "me" and "I."  
 
The body and brain are mere temporary physical machinery the "self" utilizes in this material realm we temporarily occupy.
 
Note the "Core Mind" that governs and is not reducible to the operations of the brain in the physical world.
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​This only begins theevidence that we are beings beyond mere physical agglomerations of chemicals. More to follow.