Somebody Must be Doing the Experiencing

       It is not possible to comprehend thought, let alone perceptions, feelings, etc., without postulating something that is not brain that is doing the thinking, perceiving, feeling.  That something may use and rely on the brain and the other apparatus of the body to provide it with knowledge of the world and, in turn, to carry out its intentions in the world, but no Rube Goldberg mechanism within the brain or nervous system or body as a whole makes intelligible what we group under the general term "experience".  If followed all the way to their terminus, all trains of thought inevitably lead back to a somebody, a something, that has to do the experiencing.  We don't have to get all mystical about this and call that something "soul", "spirit", "ghost", or whatever.  For current purposes, I call it simply "you."