What is "Mind?"

We first must ask: Is the brain that is believed to be learning about itself conscious? Put differently, is said brain aware of learning about itself?

Second, is this "learning" any different than the processing that goes on in a computer (now, or in some future computer), and if so, how?

What the article actually described was a struggle among scholars, religious leaders, and ordinary people alike to rethink and redefine what we mean by God, and it saw that the search was on for new ways to pursue the timeless yearning to know the Infinite. “The new approaches to the problem of God,” said Time, may (among other possibilities) “lead to a more realistic, and somewhat more abstract, conception of God.”

The Time reporters were tuned into the zeitgeist. In the spring of 1966, baby boomers were in high school and college. They were the best-educated generation in history, and they also had plenty of spending money, free time, and unprecedented access to information, thanks to postwar advances in communication and technology. They also had free-thinking role models: the beatniks, the hippie vanguard, the early adopters of LSD, the political activists and others for whom “question authority” was a mantra.

And speaking of mantras, the West also had easy access to Eastern wisdom for the first time. The Beats had ushered Zen onto the scene; the Hare Krishnas had become a fixture in be-ins and other counterculture happenings; Yoga and Transcendental Meditation classes were cropping up on campuses; George Harrison had put a sitar riff on “Norwegian Wood“ and was about to be mentored by Ravi Shankar, setting the stage for the Beatles’ historic sojourn in India; and books by interpreters of Hinduism and Buddhism, like Alan Watts and Aldous Huxley, were making the rounds, along with the Bhagavad Gita, Zen Flesh, Zen Bones, the East-infused novels of Herman Hesse and J.D. Salinger, and Paramahansa Yogananda’s Autobiography of a Yogi.

All in all, conventional religious beliefs were being called into question as never before, and the search for answers was not confined to the young; large numbers of grownups were also questioning what they had been taught about God. People were discovering new ways of understanding and pursuing spirituality, and adopting new language to discuss it , often eschewing the very word “God” because it was laden with connotations they wished to leave behind.

Rather, the brain itself IS conscious

Consciousness is eternal and never ever was born nor ever dies.

Does that go for all forms of life? Or is it reserved for humans?

Do you suppose there is yet hope for this thread?

Show any "thing" with absolute certainty. Say what anything is completely, accurately, and finally.

I have alluded to Gödel's theorem to warn against self-referential arguments, particularly mind investigating itself, citing the paradoxes that could arise.

went outside of time

No one has ever done such a thing, no one will ever do such a thing, as only God is Time itself in his impersonal feature and form .....

Endless interpretations.

This.