"Our mind might not be inside our head"

From a review of  Why You Are not Your Brain via Mindful Hack

The most mysterious thing about the human brain is that the more we know about it, the deeper our own mystery becomes. On the one hand, scientists tell us that we are nothing but 3 pounds of electrical flesh inside the skull, a trillion synapses exchanging squirts of neurotransmitter.

And yet we feel like more than the sum of these cells.
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The question of how the brain creates the mind - how these subjective experiences emerge from a piece of pale gray meat - is one of the essential questions of modern science. And yet, despite decades of research, we aren't remotely close to an answer.

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Alva Noë, a philosopher at UC Berkeley, argues that consciousness remains a mystery because we've been looking in the wrong place. In his provocative and lucid new book, Noë writes that scientists have been so eager to locate the mind in the brain that they've neglected to consider the possibility that our mind might not be inside our head.

"Out of Our Heads: Why You Are Not Your Brain, and Other Lessons from the Biology of Consciousness" (Alva Noe)

Another review from Scientific American

The reason we have been unable to explain the neural basis of consciousness, he says, is that it does not take place in the brain.

Consciousness is not something that happens inside us but something we achieve.  it is more like dancing than it is like the digestive process.

To understand consciousness the fact that we think and feel and that a world shows up for us we need to look at a larger system of which the brain is only one element.  Consciousness requires the joint operation of brain, body and world. "You are not your brain. The brain, rather, is part of what you are."

It sounds like the Cosmic Dance