"The physical embodiment of the mind" is misleading at best. The brain, to be surer, is the physical embodiment of, well, the concept of "the brain." "The mind" embodies itself in all of what humans percieve to be existent and is constructed using the brain, the senses, the habit-energy (ex. genes, tradition) and this interaction is what we see and call "real". (acts, mind, expression, brain... actually reside in the "not-real")