The brain itself does not have 'senses' of its own so "phenomena in the brain" – humuncular theory – does not make sense.What phenomena are in the brain and if so how? — Andrew4Handel
"Memories" are functions, not "phenomena".We know that we have memories — Andrew4Handel
"Memories" are functions, not "phenomena". — 180 Proof
What function do the memories of my brother serve — Andrew4Handel
It doesn't make sense to attribute mental states like my memory of my grandmother or my belief that 2 + 2 = 4 to the whole of my body or a function.
But that does sound like a rehash of behaviourism. — Andrew4Handel
The pain is in your foot -- but neurons communicate with each other to send to your brain the message that your foot hurts. Your brain doesn't "hurt", it's the acuity of the pain receptors that's responsible for exciting the spinal cord.But when I have a pain in my foot I experience that is in my foot extended out yet that is also a sensation supposed to be experienced in the head. — Andrew4Handel
What phenomena are in the brain and if so how? — Andrew4Handel
Neurons do exist throughout the body, performing a variety of functions. Most neurons fall into three classifications: sensory, motor, or interneuron.
Sensory neurons are spread throughout organs, including the skin, muscles, and joints.
Motor neurons are found in cell in the heart, intestinal system, diaphragm, and glands.
The third major category of neurons is the interneurons. These neurons are specialized to provide for communication between the sensory and motor neurons. Interneurons are also able to communicate each other.
The pain is in your foot -- but neurons communicate with each other to send to your brain the message that your foot hurts — L'éléphant
It doesn't seem quite right to assign any specific location to thoughts, memories and desires, although it might be reasonable to say that they are associated with the persons who 'have' them or are aware of them. — Janus
No. It just means that the spinal cord and the brain sustained a major trauma (losing a limb) that threw the system into disorder. We never said that the system is perfect -- brains aren't perfect.There are phantoms pains. People experience pain in a missing limb. This what suggest pain is all in the brain. — Andrew4Handel
What phenomena are in the brain and if so how? — Andrew4Handel
"Where are hallucinations?" is a wrong question. One might want to say that they originate in the brain, but they are not experienced in the brain but in the world. Yet they are not in the world either, they are nowhere - they are hallucinations. — unenlightened
"Memories" are functions, not "phenomena". — 180 Proof
When one has a memory of an event, it seems to me that memory is a phenomenon. One could put it in verb form: I just remembered what it smelled like in the car, but it seems 'memory' can refer to the function or the phenomenon of remembering. That experience.1.
the faculty by which the mind stores and remembers information.
"I've a great memory for faces"
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something remembered from the past.
"one of my earliest memories is of sitting on his knee"
I feel like it is too convenient just to try and correlate any concept and or mental state with a brain state and assume the brain state does all the explanatory work we need without an actual causal explanation. — Andrew4Handel
Memory (my vivid memory of a deceased relative, their voice and appearance etc)? — Andrew4Handel
the detailed causal explanation that explains why a memory suddenly gets activated, — universeness
Then the self is not the experiences but the capacity to have experiences and persists longer than the experiences themselves and the experiences are seperate and made from sensations created in the brain.I think consciousness requires a self and we have point of view in front of which we experience things. It almost invokes a homunculus in the middle of the brain watching a screen with images on it or some central location where we can have a unified coherent perception or thought. — Andrew4Handel
Then the self is not the experiences — lorenzo sleakes
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