We don't have to know everything about how an internal combustion engine works in order to know that the engine itself that is producing energy, and not that it is a receiver for universal energy being 'received' by the engine
Humans designed and built the entire thing. They know exactly what it is.
Which misses the point, nobody knows everything about what it is down to the atomic level. Some know very little about computers, but that does not mean they know nothing, or that they cannot use a computer as well as someone who does.
No we don't.
We know about cells and electrical activity and blood and neurotransmitters and receptors that initiate or decrease things in the cells.
But we don't have a clue what a mind is.
If we did you could tell me.
You are still missing the point. We know enough to understand that various chemical alter mind and that each chemical alters mind in specific ways. We know what effects surgery has on cognitive function, damage to the hypothalamus, which regulates such things as temperature regulation, thirst, hunger, sleep, mood, sex drive, etc, any or all of these functions being effected by damage to the structure
Is it an electrical pattern? A magnetic pattern? Some electrical effect? A magnetic effect? Some kind of quantum effect? Is the movement of the blood involved? Some kind of reception? Some combination of these things?
That's not relevant to what I'm saying. I've repeatedly said that the how of consciousness is not understood, but that it is clear that the brain is the agency responsible for mind formation.
Show me this study where researchers predict decisions.
There have been many experiments, I've already mentioned several earlier in this thread.
One example:
When it comes to making decisions, it seems that the conscious mind is the last to know.
''We already had evidence that it is possible to detect brain activity associated with movement before someone is aware of making a decision to move. Work presented this week at the British Neuroscience Association (BNA) conference in London not only extends it to abstract decisions, but suggests that it might even be possible to pre-emptively reverse a decision before a person realises they’ve made it.
In 2011, Gabriel Kreiman of Harvard University measured the activity of individual neurons in 12 people with epilepsy, using electrodes already implanted into their brain to help identify the source of their seizures. The volunteers took part in the “Libet” experiment, in which they press a button whenever they like and remember the position of a second hand on a clock at the moment of decision.
Kreiman discovered that electrical activity in the supplementary motor area, involved in initiating movement, and in the anterior cingulate cortex, which controls attention and motivation, appeared up to 5 seconds before a volunteer was aware of deciding to press the button (Neuron, doi.org/btkcpz). This backed up earlier fMRI studies by John-Dylan Haynes of the Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience in Berlin, Germany, that had traced the origins of decisions to the prefrontal cortex a whopping 10 seconds before awareness'
''If this kind of “mind-reading” is possible, a new study by Haynes, published this week and also presented at the meeting, suggests that it may not be restricted to decisions about moving a finger. Using fMRI, Haynes has found that the very brain areas involved in deciding to move are also active several seconds before a more abstract decision, like whether to add or subtract a series of numbers.''
