![]() ![]() So although it’s easy to intuit that thoughts don’t have a physical basis, that they are something like feathers on the wind, they in fact depend directly on the integrity of the enigmatic, three-pound mission control center. Our hopes, dreams, aspirations, fears, cosmic instincts, great ideas, fetishes, senses of humor, and desires all emerge from this strange organ - and when the brain changes, so do we. The state of the physical material determines the state of the thoughts. | But just like voices, thoughts are underpinned by physical stuff. ![]() Thoughts seem to be a kind of tremendous magic. You wouldn’t think that a thought has a shape or smell or any sort of physical instantiation. What exactly is a thought? It doesn’t seem to weigh anything. | So it comes as a surprise that a voice is physical. Voices are weightless and odorless, something you cannot hold in your hand. There’s Someone In My Head, But It’s Not MeĪ vocalization seems ephemeral and ineffable: it is like opening a bag of feathers which scatter on the breeze and can never be retrieved. Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain. ![]()
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