"The phenomenological body is in the brain." Hmm. Then, if you experience a
traumatic fall from a few storeys up, and the medics ask you if you're in
pain, and if so, where, you answer: "My head hurts. That's all." Might not
be too hepful in diagnosing a broken leg.
Geoff C
From: Luc Delannoy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Consciousness Assayed
Date: Sat, 4 Oct 2008 12:28:38 -0700 (PDT)
Geoff wrote:
"In the somewhat unusual situation of someone who has had a
limb amputated, consciousness may register rather strong
experence (pain) which appears to be located in the amputated limb. This is
an exceptional, but reliable, observation suggesting that there is not an
absolute association between neuronal events and consciousness (and
I'm defining it). i.e events in the amputated limb - I accept that the
registering of pain in consciousness is a neuronal event, at some level of
analysis, but, in the brain, not the limb."
Amputed limb "belongs" to the phenomenological body not the "physical body"
as the brain does. This phenomenological body "is" indeed in the brain.
There is no "events in the amputed limb".
Best
Luc
