How can thought be inside the brain if you can't touch thought?

Answer 1

Empirical encephalograph readings indicate that brain activity (electrical readings) corresponds to a thought. While not entirely concrete, it is the best indicator of an immeasurable activity. The brain, while an organic unit, sends and receives electrical impulses from throughout the body. Only from area to area are these patterns known as "thought" evident by means of the encephalograph. We also cannot "touch" sensory information like touch, cold, heat, itching, pain, etc., yet we know these exist. Where they exist relies on the network of neurons and chemical neurotransmitters that neurons use to "pass" the information between one neuron and the next, or between one area of the brain and another. As another example of the encoding of information collected and processed by neurons, one only has to think of a memory---such as the face of your mother. You can touch the face of your mom, but you cannot touch the memory of your mother's face.