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How do we know the brain is where thoughts occur?

Anyone with a brain knows that our thoughts happen in our brains.  But our metaphors belie our confidence in this assertion:  “I know it in my heart,” “I have a gut feeling about it,” “I use my muscle memory to play this game.”  Each of these statements says a little bit about what it feels like to process information.  Do we know that our thoughts occur inside our heads because we can feel them happening there?  Or do we feel them happening there because we’ve been taught very early on that our brains are where our thinking happens?