'Imagine a person whose memory could not retain what the word 'pain' meant-so that he constantly called different things by that name-but nevertheless used the word in a way fitting in with the usual symptoms and presuppositions of pain'-in short he uses it as we all do. Here I should like to say: a wheel that can be turned though nothing else moves with it, is not part of the mechanism.
Ludwig WittgensteinWhat is troubling us is the tendency to believe that the mind is like a little man within.
Ludwig WittgensteinThe aspects of things that are most important for us are hidden because of their simplicity and familiarity. (One is unable to notice something because it is always before oneโs eyes.) The real foundations of his enquiry do not strike a man at all
Ludwig WittgensteinThe feeling of an unbridgeable gulf between consciousness and brain-process:When does this feeling occur in the present case?It is when I (for example) turn my attention in a particular way on to my own consciousness, and, astonished, say to myself: THIS is supposed to be produced by a process in the brain!--as it were clutching my forehead.
Ludwig Wittgenstein