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.