Seeing red

[bennyboy]

That's strange, since the brain -is- the "space" in which this experience resides.

Mind/body and philosophical issues aside, this needs to be demonstrated.  Waving at the brain and insisting it must be in there somewhere isn't enough.

Let's say you have neuron bundles coming from different parts of the brain.  How does say, "tree appearance" pass from one part of the brain to another to be integrated with "bark smell"?  Is there a tree-bark neural pathway, or is it a common "bus"?  And if it's a common bus, how does one brain part's identification of "tree" get passed along non-visual systems to get integrated?

Links or theories, please.  Let's drop the babble and start talking about the brain, its parts, and specific, physical theories of how it works. My understanding is that there's a bunch of stuff happening all over the brain, and coordination, but not substantive coordination-- i.e. that only the visual cortext can process sight, but doesn't really send visual signals to other parts of the brain-- which aren't equipped to receive them.