<p>...would you still be able to guess that your thoughts "came from" (happened) inside your head? I think I would. I feel that I can sense that my thoughts are located their, but I don't know how I'm doing it. I don't know what sense I'm using O.o</p>
<p>I’m pretty sure the sense you’re using is a “pre-conceived notion”. Because you already DO know where your brain is, you just feel that your thoughts are coming from that area. If you had no idea where your brain was located, I’m not so sure that you would know where your thoughts are “coming from”.</p>
<p>My advice, look into some veridical paradoxes. Where you hurt, is where your brain resides.</p>
<p>Yeah that’s the thing - I don’t really know if it’s a pre-conceived notion or not.</p>
<p>What if I make the argument that thinking is a feeling just like, say, hunger. Because in the case of hunger one can determine the feeling occurs in the stomach without a preconceived notion (without being told or shown that the stomach is the thing that digests the food). The “growling” sounds that accompany the feeling can serve as proof that hunger is localized in the stomach. So maybe the brain too gives off signals (albeit ones less overt) that lead me to reach the conclusion that I do - that thoughts take place in the brain.</p>
<p>But can we classify conscious thinking as a feeling, that is the question…</p>
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<p>Can you explain what you mean ^</p>
<p>That’s an interesting thought you propose. Does the sensation of thinking allow for the detection of the brain? I’m not sure.</p>
<p>And what I meant was that the veridical paradoxes will give you a headache. Where you feel the pain of a headache is where your brain is. :P</p>
<p>Considering that most of the sensory organs–eyes, mouth, ears, tongue, and nose, for example–are on the head, I think it’d be instinctual or at least inherently logical to think that the brain was there too.</p>
<p>Yeah, if you knew a brain existed in the first place it would make sense to guess it was in the head, everary. It’s obviously evolutionary preferable to have the sensory organs close to the brain (or rather the brain close to the sensory organs - the eyes, ears, mouth [and by extension nose] are at the head in the first place because it is the optimal spot [the highest up]), because then the central nervous system is most efficient (then transmission of the senses is shortest, and thus least taxing). </p>
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<p>haha yeah :p. this topic seems to be on the boundaries of paradoxical territory, because it sort of inevitably addresses questions of self conception and consciousness.</p>
<p>No, you probably wouldn’t. Ancient Greeks believed that rational thought came from the heart organ.</p>
<p>Heard of “phantom limbs”? Anyways, the brain mentally maps certain “feelings” with certain regions of the body (which may or may not be accessible). Maybe it’s just a “phantom limb” feeling that comes with education.</p>