location of consciousness

[peace]

In Origin of Consciousness pages 44-46 Julian Jaynes proposes that because we can introspect or imagine the location of consciousness in locations other than in our and others heads and behind our and others eyes that doing so is arbitrary. Because the mind can be located at many places doesn’t mean it can’t be located behind the eyes. This is not arbitrary, it is convenient and functional. An example: as a teenager while attempting to bumper-slide on a car the driver put the car in reverse. As an act of survival my mind went to different places in space and in time. I experienced my mind looking down at my body from the height of the top of a telephone pole. And back in time to grammar school where I was practicing tumbling on mats in the gymnasium in the form of a body roll. Without the relocation of my mind in space and time I may not have survived this incident. After he drove off, I stood up in a state of shock. Actually, our minds exist wherever we imagine them and doing so in our heads is just as realistic as any other place we can imagine. By Michael Lewis