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Erwin Schrodinger – Mind and Matter

So we are faced with the following remarkable situation.  While the stuff from which our world picture is built is yielded exclusively from the sense organs as organs of the mind, so that every man’s world picture is and always remains a construct of his mind and cannot be proved to have any other existence, yet the conscious mind itself remains a stranger within that construct, it has no living space in it, you can spot it nowhere in space.  We do not usually realise this fact, because we have entirely taken to thinking of the personality of a human being, or for that matter also that of an animal, as located in the interior of its body.  To learn that it cannot really be found there is so amazing that it meets with doubt and hesitation, we are very loath to admit it.  We have got used to  localising the conscious personality inside a person’s head.