The passenger is the thought generated by the brain... if the brain is damaged: it produces few thoughts. I do like you analogy btw 
Thoughts are physically in the brain, and the brain generates them. All of it is physical... our thoughts are very much like the internet: there is a series of connected servers, and those servers communicate with the individual computers around the world.
I truly think that thought is a sixth sense to our surroundings, as in thought we recall what the other senses have perceived, and join them together to create new knowledge of our surroundings, which gives us a greater perception of our surroundings.
That, i think, is why we evolved thought in the first place... and our brain is what generates it... as much as our brain generates our ability to see, hear, feel, taste, and smell. It is as physical a thing as our eyes, ears, skin, taste buds, and nose are... a neuron is just a lot smaller
Thoughts are physically in the brain, and the brain generates them. All of it is physical... our thoughts are very much like the internet: there is a series of connected servers, and those servers communicate with the individual computers around the world.
I truly think that thought is a sixth sense to our surroundings, as in thought we recall what the other senses have perceived, and join them together to create new knowledge of our surroundings, which gives us a greater perception of our surroundings.
That, i think, is why we evolved thought in the first place... and our brain is what generates it... as much as our brain generates our ability to see, hear, feel, taste, and smell. It is as physical a thing as our eyes, ears, skin, taste buds, and nose are... a neuron is just a lot smaller
Please give me a home where cloud buffalo roam
Where the dear and the strangers can play
Where sometimes is heard a discouraging word
But the skies are not stormy all day
