This is an excellent observation The idea has been somewhat famously illustrated in the concept of the muse, an external entity or influence that is the actual

This is an excellent observation The idea has been somewhat famously illustrated in the concept of the muse, an external entity or influence that is the actual source of the ideas that we then channel into our reality Similar also to what Michelangelo once said: > The sculpture is already complete within the marble block, before I start my work. It is already there, I just have to chisel away the superfluous material. On a similar vein of the “not in the brain” concept, there are many proponents of the “embodied” consciousness, meaning that consciousness is in the whole body, not just our brain/nervous system (this is also very briefly touched upon in one episode of the AppleTV series Extrapolations)