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Full Idea
Russell held that we are aware of states of our own brain.
Gist of Idea
Russell held that we are aware of states of our own brain
Source
report of Bertrand Russell (The Relation of Sense-Data to Physics [1914]) by Howard Robinson - Perception 1.1
Book Ref
Robinson,Howard: 'Perception' [Routledge 2001], p.3
A Reaction
I can't say that I had ever intepreted Russell in this way, but it is a wonderfully thought-provoking idea. All the time that I thought I was looking at a table, I was just looking at my own brain, and drawing an unspoken inference that a table caused it.