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On Mar 7, 12:09 pm, "h...@yahoo.com" <h...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> >On Mar 6, 7:51 pm, "Peter T. Daniels" <gramma...@verizon.net> wrote:
>
> (snip)
>
> >Peter wrote:
> > Jeezus, Heidi. If you can "feel" what your brain is doing, why the
> > hell are you wasting your time in a newsgroup, when you could be
> > earning millions as an informant for neurophysiologists?
>
> Peter, are you telling me you cannot feel what part of your brain
> is energized while you're engaged in various activities?

If people in general could "feel" such things, then Aristotle (was
it?) wouldn't have taught that the brain is an air-conditioning
mechanism for cooling the body.

> I have no trouble feeling when I'm using my left, right, front
> and back of my brain.  My brain energy zips around all
> over the place and I can feel that energy.  Sometimes
> I use both left and right hemispheres at the same time,
> depending on what I'm doing.

As I said, if you can do that, without wearing a portable PET-scan
device, then your services would be worth millions to any brain
researcher. If you can introspect and tell us what you are doing when
you speak or listen or read or write (let alone all the other things
that brains do!), neuroscience could make strides undreamed of by
Broca, Wernicke, or Hughlings Jackson.

> I can especially feel my brain when I come down with a
> headache or a migraine and I know exactly what location
> of the brain is affected when I get either of those.

Migraine sufferers (my sympathies) are a somewhat special case. (But
what does the location of a migraine have to do with brain functioning
associated with that location?)

> You do know what a head-ache feels like, don't you?

Very, very rarely. When I got a headache, I would lie down and put
Handel's concerti grossi or organ concertos on the record player. They
are about the most soothing, soporific, and least intellectually
engaging music I know about.

> Feeling one's brain isn't actually all that difficult to do.
> It comes quite naturally to me.  ;-)

Just slice open your skull and touch it!