Our brain. . .

(Sir John Eccles, Nobel Prize for research on the brain.) He describes the brain as: 'A machine that a ghost can operate.' Your brain doesn't think; if it did we would be prisoners of our brain. Our brain is like a computer that we use. There's a ghost in the machine, as they say and the brain is like a computer that we use to interface with this space-time-matter continuum in which our bodies function.

The mind is not a disembodied brain in a vat of chemicals, as in some B-grade horror films. Transplanting a brain into a different body would not preserve the identity of the person. In the words of German neuro-philosopher Thomas Fuchs, "The brain is only an organ, and it is not the brain, but the organism or the living person that has conscious access to the world."

http://www.bioedge.org/index.php/bioethics/bioethics_article/8643/