Often compound words have drifted so far from their etymological roots that native speakers can easily miss what is right in front of their eyes. - Douglas Hofstadter

Consider the fact that you are now experiencing death, in a curious way. Not being in Paris right now, you know what it is like to be dead in Paris. No lights, no sounds — nothing. The same goes for Timbuctu. In fact, you are dead everywhere — except for one small spot. Just think how close you are to being dead everywhere!

without concepts there can be no thought, and without analogies there can be no concepts.

Saying that studying the brain is limited to the study of physical entities would be like saying that literary criticism must focus on paper and bookbinding, ink and its chemistry, page sizes and margin widths, typefaces and paragraph lengths, and so forth.