Comment by thinkingemote
1 year ago
I understood that people in pre modern times thought of the "me" as the heart. I'm not sure if that meant they thought this was where thinking occurred but where the emotions lived I imagine.
1 year ago
I understood that people in pre modern times thought of the "me" as the heart. I'm not sure if that meant they thought this was where thinking occurred but where the emotions lived I imagine.
Or it is simply an observation that when the heart stops, the body ceases to be conscious. The functioning of the brain was not visible without modern tools.
Even further, the early greeks thought that it's your lungs / chest / breath which is life.
Alcmaeon of Croton identified the brain as the seat of thought as early as the 5th century BCE.
Maybe this came from being hungry a lot.