Also: part I, part III

Validate for me if this is true in your experience as well.

Posit: All thought happens in the head space.

I hear _the voices in my head_ in my head, they can't be conceived of anywhere else. Just try to hear the voices from your chest. They won't move.

It seems unlikely that it has anything to do with the brain being there. I have no picture of my brain. I understand there's a bunch of grey matter there, I picture little sparks jumping back and forth across it, but there's no real grasp of skull, bone, fluid, brain. My head is just a homogenous dense mass that stuff happens in.

Given that, is the fact that all the voices and processing clearly happens behind my eyes and nose a fact of socialization? If there were a mountain tribe somewhere that taught that the brain and thinking happened in my belly, would I feel all my processing happen from the midriff?

Or do I feel the thinking happening in my head because that is where all the sensory input is? Visual happens at eye level, stereo audio and triangulation, smell and taste. It would make sense that my understanding of the world should be centered around the perspective from which the world is observed.

Either way, it feels inefficient and unbalanced. There's this extremely important yet overly small thing sitting on my shoulders. The rest of my body is practically a throwaway, it just executes instructions and carries me around.