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That's actually *not* obvious. How do you know what the seat of consciousness is? For centuries people believed that the heart was the seat of the mind, not the brain.

While science has shown that the brain is indeeed responsible for most cognition, its not an obvious fact. In fact it wasnt until the 19th century that scientists realized that the physical structure of the brain was directly responsible for thing lie personality, emotion, and so on.

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You're really going to tell me that you think some cognition comes from outside the brain? Then you either believe people are in some ways supernatural, or you believe in some other kind of supernatural...something.

I guess I don't get what the problem is here. We know the general role of the brain. Exactly how the brain works is still a mystery, but that doesn't mean we don't know what its job is.