Single Idea 4154

[catalogued under 17. Mind and Body / D. Property Dualism / 6. Mysterianism]

Full Idea

Why does the feeling of an unbridgeable gulf between consciousness and brain-process not come into the considerations of our ordinary life?

Gist of Idea

Why are we not aware of the huge gap between mind and brain in ordinary life?

Source

Ludwig Wittgenstein (Philosophical Investigations [1952], §412)

Book Reference

Wittgenstein,Ludwig: 'Philosophical Investigations', ed/tr. Anscombe,E. [Blackwell 1972], p.124


A Reaction

Nice question. Presumably Wittgenstein has a quasi-behaviouristic answer. People don't now ignore it? They retreat into crazy spiritualism.