Consul wrote: ↑May 28th, 2019, 10:19 am
Where else can your experiences be? Your consciousness is a state of your brain, which is the organ of consciousness. Consciousness (with its experiential contents) is realized by and in the brain.
Consciousness is realized by the brain as it is connected with its physical environment, this is obvious, but what is not obvious and shows a total misunderstanding of the situation, is to claim that consciousness is
located in the brain. Only physical phenomena can have physical locations. As I showed by the thought experiment in my reply to Atla - and if that experiment is not misunderstood as Atla did - I, as a subject, and my consciousness, cannot meaningfully be said to have a physical location, only the physiological correlate of my consciousness is in my brain of course, as my brain interacts with its environment. The subject, as manifested in each individual subject, is a reference point of all physical locations without itself being located anywhere. But one of its objects of consciousness, its body, is located somewhere in the world it is conscious of as a spatial continuum. We can say that my body is the origo of physical space, and there are as many origos as there are indivudual subjects in the world. And none of those subjects have a location in space; each of them measure space from their own origo. But of course, as their bodies have locations, it is easy to make the mistake of thinking that consciousness has a spatial location. If I remember right, Descartes was one of the first philosophers to make this distinction of extensionality and non-extensionality.
So, if someone asks where you live, you may say: 10 km west of Paris. But the philosophically correct answer would be: nowhere, but there is a town called Paris 10 km east of my body.