I think it's interesting that very little of the visual that the limerick is representing is involved with the goal. But it still does the job. The na...
I don't think they currently experience anything like we do, because there isn't even a small fraction as much going on in them as there is in us. A s...
I meant I put the thoughts of the woman swimming in the sea, getting hit in the eye by the oar of a guy in a punt in your mind. I did that by posting ...
I don't believe there's any such thing as 'strong emergence'. There's just emergence, which most think of as 'weak emergence'. And it is intelligible....
Oh! Here's a good one! There once was a woman named Bree Who went for a swim in the sea. But a man in a punt Stuck an oar in her eye And now she's bli...
"Everything"? Surely not. How does memory work in anything that demonstrates memory? I don't know which devices you have in mind, but which have any m...
If I'm following you, the reason for that is that we are incapable of perceiving everything that exists all at the same time, and incapable off percei...
This is how Nagel said it: I don't think there can be anything it's like to be any organism, to be anything, for that thing, if it does not have certa...
Just looking at this again.They are thoughts in the same mind. My mind. I was thinking of the chef salad I was eating; which lead to how I acquired th...
I'm not following. In whose mind are my father ordering a chef salad in a restaurant and my wife's boss's desire to get her to eat at their monthly me...
I lost track. Dawnstar first used it. I just don't see the difficulty. We can break things up however we want. My father ordering a chef salad in a re...
I don't really know what you had in mind with the word "isolation". But, unless we say we have only one thought per day, spanning the entirety of the ...
I don't know about being able to isolate a thought from the process of thinking, but we can clearly talk about different thoughts in isolation. I can ...
One thought can cause another. It happens all the time. I won't be able to help you with this. I just don't get the idea well enough. Or maybe the poi...
True enough. But the idea is that the gathering of people at that time and place is not the cause of the train's arrival. If nobody showed up when the...
You knew you were being prompted to retrieve 12, so chose not to, all without thinking of 12? aren't you thinking of 12 when you realized it's what wa...
It seems to me retrieving a memory is a big way one thought causes another. Any kind of association is a memory. The fact that bananas are yellow is s...
I only have a cell phone. I know it misspells things all the time, and I proofread a lot. It's very frustrating to read your response, and see mistake...
Well now that's two lines in the sand. Is it two different thoughts? Or is it one compound thought? Yes, I'm joking. :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: You think? I...
I think the topic should be: How Does a Thought Cause Another Thought? That's what we need to work on. It can happen in different ways. "7+5" shows on...
I wish I could makes sense of it. What can have caused a sentence that I intentionally constructed to be unique to the world, whose parts are unrelate...
My Castro example is demonstrating that the association can be anything. Because of my posts, If you get the thought "7 + 5", you will soon have the t...
I don't think that's right. The propositional or meaning content of the thought can't lead to anything. It can only lead to certain things for anyone,...
I have not been able to find anything on that particular experiment. I wonder if I'm remembering it correctly after all these years. I wonder if those...
I think you're right. But, regardless of the specific thought "7 + 5" causes, it causes another thought. I'd say it's overwhelmingly likely that it wi...
Could be. But I'll bet it lead to "12" first. I'll bet nobody who read it thought "5 +7" or "7-5" or "7 divided by 5" or "these two prime numbers do n...
That's an extremely interesting thing. I can't say I've ever had the experience. I've only ever had the opposite, sort of. Thinking I had an understan...
Many years ago, I heard of a study where they injected novacaine or something into people's throats so they could not make those micro movements. The ...
Yes. Things are often not how they appear. We should always keep an open mind. But the default position for anything isn't "Things are often not as th...
That's a difficult question. But we know it's there somewhere, so we have to figure it out. How can it be denied that I caused 12 to be in your head? ...
Well, I don't know the lingo, so I'll just give my thoughts, and you can see if it's what you're after. I would bet a large majority of those who read...
I wish I had time to read this right now. Not for another nine hours, at least. But I have one *ahem* thought from the little I just read. I suppose i...
It is interesting that "mind" can seem to itself to be something that it is not. Unlike a sphere drawn on paper which does not seem to itself to be a ...
It is an interesting thing, eh? But yin/yang is real. When we're sick, we feel so good upon recovering. Better than we did before we got sick. I don't...
All true. But no theory of consciousness has made predictions that explain how consciousness comes to be, that rules out any other theory, and whose p...
I have no doubt that Dr. Renee Richards and Caitlyn Marie Jenner are women. I can't imagine how such a thing happens, but I do not have any suspicion ...
I'm just thinking that it would be bad if we only gained negative things. Have we also gained self-love? I would think that, if you are right, and sel...
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