How did we realise the mind is in the brain?
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The mind isn’t so much in the brain, the brain is more like a projector. Consciousness is the show, the brain is just the underlying physical machine that’s generating it.
But if you break the projector, the show stops.
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The observation of injury must be the main “scientific” reason to infer that, but notice that we look at the world from our head, because that’s where eyes are.
I often say to my students, if you think the brain doesn’t create the mind, let me take a melon baller to your brain, I promise I can wipe out/remove any part of your ‘mind’.
If I hit your head hard enough with a rock, your personality can change, and you can lose memories. We also perceive all of our senses from the head.
It wasn’t too hard to piece together. Then we started cutting chunks of it out, and that basically confirmed it
If people hurt their heads badly enough, their mind will start to do weird things. This doesn’t happen for other body parts.
Don’t you just feel it? I have always been aware of my head being crucial to my thinking and I should protect it more than anything else.
Worth noting that the ancient Egyptians used to think that the brain produced mucus and snot, and that your “mind” was actually in your heart.
Hitting people in the head hard enough either kills then or makes them unconscious.
Hit head means sleep for short time or forever is a pretty obvious cause and effect scenario.
Alva Noe says the brain is necessary for a mind but not sufficient – it takes a whole body to mind!
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