Proven in that theres evidence for it? YepUnresearched? Yeah ok, so you have faith that those areas exist but haven't been identified. You're a materialist but don't act like it's proven fact.
and I don't have faith in anything...thats where the evidence leads and what it already suggests.
we are nothing more (AS FAR AS WE KNOW) than the product of our brains.
Mental propensities? All the kinds of memories and our abilities to wield, decision making, processing information, different kinds of attention, visual perception, mental nodes and schemas.
Why do you think humans are only that unique?
Why can't whales be smarter than us? Just we cook our food and have fingers and toes to manipulate objects doesn't mean we're inherently more gifted than any other species.
You think just cause flipper has fins that he can't do calculus if he wanted to?
There isn't any theory that connects those things along with the physical anatomy aspect into one big coherent theory which is universally accepted.
Current theories suggest that we're a product of our minds and thats it.
Then again, I SERIOUSLY doubt you're up on the latest in that field.