Then I ask you, is the subject-experimenter
observing one thing or two things? (Don't
say that he is observing one thing both from the inside
and from the outside; for this does not remove the
difficulty. We will talk of inside and outside
later
.) The
subject-experimenter is observing a correlation of two
phenomena. One of them he, perhaps, calls the
thought. This may consist of a train of
images, organic sensations, or, on the other hand of a train of the
various visual, tact
ile and muscular
experiences which he has in writing or speaking a
sentence.‒ ‒ ‒ The other experience is one of seeing
his brain work. Both these phenomena could correctly be
called “expressions of thought”; and the
question “where is the thought itself?” had
better, in order to prevent confus
ion, be rejected as
nonsensical. If however we do use the expression
“the thought takes place in our heads”, we have
given this expression its meaning by describing the experience
which would justify the
hypothesis “the thought
takes place in our heads” by describing what we call the
experience of observing
13.
the thought in our
brain.