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Oct 13, 2017, 08:48 PM
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Where is the mind? If there are intrinsic relationships of brain, body, and environment, where does this leave the mind? The tempting (Cartesian) belief that the mind could exist in separation of the body involves an epistemic illusion caused by our inability to know how we generate our mental contents, including our sense of self. This inability is known as transparency (McGinn, 1989, 1998; Metzinger, 2003) or autoepistemic limitation (Northoff, 2003). Whereas there is no mind without a brain, the mind does not equal the brain. We tend to experience that our mind is in our head, but no one has found the mind in the brain. According to Alva Noë (2009, p. xiii):
Human experience is a dance that unfolds in the world and with others. You are not your brain. We are not locked up in a prison of our own ideas and sensations. The phenomenon of consciousness, like that of life itself, is a world-involving dynamic process. We are already at home in the environment. We are out of our heads. "Consciousness isn't something that happens inside us: it is something that we do, actively, in our dynamic interaction with the world around us" (Noë, 2009, p. 24).
Journal of Cosmology
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