Frank Goad
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Why does our brains say we are in our bodies?And looking out through our eyes?
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Question for all the people into brain and mind sciences only.
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As I understand our conscious is created by sensory perception from all our bodies sensors hence the attachment to the body. Our eyes are just the sensors we primarily choose to use. You also rely on all the others. Some main ones are sound and smell like when you are relaxing on a beautiful day with your eyes closed, you can hear the birds chirping and smell the nearby flowers. Blind people still feel they are in there bodies and still experience the world without looking out through their eyes.Why does our brains say we are in our bodies?And looking out through our eyes?
Frank Goad
Well-Known Member
Why does our brains say were in a body in the first place though?
Heyo
Veteran Member
Because we are told so. There is no intrinsic notion of the brain being in the body and doing the thinking.Why does our brains say we are in our bodies?And looking out through our eyes?
We now know that to be the case but historically people believed all kinds of organs to be the center of thinking, mostly the heart. There are also other ideas like some kind of "spirit" that is not in the body but steering it. There is also the holistic idea of the body and the mind being one entity.
If the idea of being in our bodies was based on sensations those other ideas wouldn't have come up.
Native
Free Natural Philosopher & Comparative Mythologist
Well, if you´re having an out-of-body experience, your consciousness isn´t in you body, but ouside it.
What does that tell you?
Physical attachment to form. Neurons, brain mass, nerves are all connected to the body. Electrical pulses all generated by the body. Where else would it think it was.Why does our brains say were in a body in the first place though?
Native
Free Natural Philosopher & Comparative Mythologist
Its everywhere and far out in space as well as all atoms and molecules in the Universe have the same basic properties.
In fact the observed Cosmic Web has this property itself and the human brain mirrors this scenario.
TagliatelliMonster
Veteran Member
That people have vivid imagination and are easily fooled.
It tells you you're experiencing an illusion that can be reproduced experimentally. This report is from 2007, so that's hardly news.
I'm not clear on what else it should be saying.Why does our brains say we are in our bodies?And looking out through our eyes?
If you look at the evolution of the brain, it starts with the first bilaterans, 550 million years ago; there follow the evolution of the nervous center, the central nerve pathway, the bony covering for it that turns it into the spinal chord; and at the same time evolution is selecting for having the sensory organs at the front, not least the eyes, where the optic nerve is an extension of brain tissue and connects directly with the eye's data.
So brain and body develop through the one process, with a whole range of sub-processes, such as the largely autonomous nervous systems of the heart and of the gut, the automation of the release of hormones from the body's glands (many triggered by the brain, many not). I tell you nothing new when I remark, no body, no brain.
syo
Well-Known Member
Because our bodies are our spaceship.Why does our brains say we are in our bodies?And looking out through our eyes?
EconGuy
Active Member
Not a brain guy, but I'd say there are two basic answers to the question.
1. This is how our brains evolved
2. This is what we experience
3, Because we are in a body