It is interesting to note that it is perhaps our brain’s close proximity (i.e. in the skull) to most of our sensory apparatus, such as our eyes and ears, that we have the intuitive and somewhat phenomenal feeling that we are in our brains. Who knows perhaps if all our sense organs were around our belly it would feel like we were feeding our brain every time we ate.
Just a silly little quirk I came up with whilst writing my dissertation.
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Putting the brain up where the sense organs are is good wiring. If the eyes, nose, and ears were remote, the sheath of neurons required to link them to the brain would be gigantic, and would significantly increase the possibilities of catastrophic failure from injury. As it is now, all that stuff is in a seriously fortified skull, very efficient.
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