On Saturday, July 10, 2021 at 2:49:07 PM UTC+2 [email protected] wrote: > On Mon, Jul 5, 2021 at 4:19 PM Tomas Pales <[email protected]> wrote: > > *>You are conscious of certain parts of your brain* >> > > I've never actually seen it >
Your eyes receive visual signals from outside your head, not from the inside, so you don't see your own brain. > so if I hadn't read about human anatomy in books I wouldn't even know that > I had a brain. How can I be conscious of something that I don't even know > exists? > Neuroscience says that we are not directly conscious of the external world but we are directly conscious of its neural representations in our brain. I would say that's because we* are* those representations. So you are conscious of parts of your brain but not of those properties of the brain that look like gray matter when they are looked at through the eyes. Instead, the properties of the brain you are conscious of look like a red tomato, taste like chocolate or sound like music. You may wonder how can a piece of gray matter look like a red tomato? I think it's because only those properties of the brain matter that are perceptible by the eyes look gray. The brain matter has many other properties that cannot be seen but some of them may feel like when you are looking at a red tomato. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/c42ad071-53c1-45a6-be66-241f805db872n%40googlegroups.com.
