The brain isn't the cause of experience for the same reason that lightning isn't the cause of atmospheric electric discharge, or that flames aren't the cause of combustion. Just as flames are but the image of the process of combustion, the body-brain system is but the image of localized experience in the stream of universal consciousness.

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "The brain isn't the cause of experience for the same reason that lightning isn't the cause of atmospheric electric discharge, or that flames aren't the cause of combustion. Just as flames are but the image of the process of combustion, the body-brain system is but the image of localized experience in the stream of universal consciousness." in the context of "Bernardo Kastrup, "Why the World Is Imagined: Summary", Metaphysical Speculations, 1 Dec. 2018" to mean that wisdom is timeless.