Would it make sense to say that our selves are realized in our brains? Would it be probable?

Question

Would it make sense to say that our selves are realized in our brains? Would it be probable?

Answer 1

makes sense. there are evidence to back that up.

Answer 2

Do you mean our computers are realized in the hard drive(s) only?

Answer 3

If that were the case then everything you know about external reality, physics, biology, space, time, the structure and working of the brain would also be realized inside the brain.

This argument is recursive - it doesn't get you anywhere.

What you really mean is "are our selves realized in our consciousness?"  Now that makes sense and is worth exploring.  What is the defining nature of your consciousness and is it correct?

Answer 4

Travel and explore, that should open the eyes and "brains" a little.

If the senses could not help you get in touch with reality, the tired body would -- with undeniable evidence.

Answer 5

Your name, together with the question, tells me a lot about your metaphysics.

If I understand you, your questions says that you think we are born with a "self" and we must find or "realize" it. That is more Socratic an idea than I've seen here in a long time. Socrates said we were born with all knowledge in our minds and that we merely had to ask ourselves the right questions to bring that knowledge out into our consciousness.

Socrates was wrong. We are born tabula rasa, and all knowledge must be placed on that metaphysical plane, and identified, by an epistemological act of the mind.

We do not "realize" our selves, we develop them from the act of placing a value on those metaphysical existents, and we do that with a similar act of epistemology.

I said your name and question told me a lot about your metaphysics. You hold existents to be things about which the mind should find unfathomable--yet here you are fathoming them and you wonder how and why.

I hold nothing to be mystical, everything knowable, and my mind to be the beginning and the end of my means of comprehending all existents in existence, and the nature of existence itself.

Answer 6

The brain is an organ. The body is simply a physical construct. Man is Spirit. He is required to accomplish spiritual awareness to gain understanding and awareness.

This is gained by sharpening of the senses. Honing intuitive perception than labouring on written text and its meaning or suggestion.

Answer 7

We are realized in the heart of our brain.

Answer 8

I would say that ourselves are developed, rather than realized.

Answer 9

Have you ever hear of...."I think, therefore I am" I think it was Augustine who said that but im not sure.