ABSTRACT
This chapter addresses what is of fundamental importance to the attempt to understand the nature of the mind, despite any initial impressions people may have of its strangeness. When asked, most of us would reply that we do indeed think with our heads. All major sensory organs furnish us with information about the part of the body that is doing the sensing. Another apparently plausible reason for believing that we think with our heads is the fact that five of our main senses (sight, hearing, smell, taste, and the sense of balance) have their locus in the head, while the remaining sense, the sense of touch, is spread out over the surface of the entire body. Most of us believe that we see with the eyes, but we could argue that the true locus of seeing is not in the eyes, but in the brain.
