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Ken Edwards

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I don't understand. You seem to contradict yourself
February 22, 2021 at 01:08
I am biginning to suspect that we are both saying the same thing. Let me begin by repeating my own words: "-I think that most popular usage of the wor...
February 21, 2021 at 22:16
Einstein's equations show that an object at the speed of light would have both infinite mass and a length of 0. Also Greater speeds provoke greater we...
February 21, 2021 at 01:13
-If you have a better word than my word "Over-mind" please tell me. — Ken Edwards?? <OK, I'll go with that term. We could almost just call it "mind", ...
February 21, 2021 at 00:21
Hi Darknes. These following opinions are 100% accurete. No leeway here at all. You say: Pretty sure the conscious mind came first otherwise you wouldn...
February 20, 2021 at 00:09
Jesus. I checked this out again with 3 guys and they got awkwardness all 3. But I had a time getting them to be aware of their thinking itself rather ...
February 19, 2021 at 16:07
I am going to take awhile to answer this because I got visiters. But keep in mind the urgent need within this conversation to invent more names for th...
February 19, 2021 at 16:02
You say: there is far too much crossover, back and forth of neurological activity to allow such proposed divisions to provide a meaningful representat...
February 19, 2021 at 00:20
Okay, f I should refute your evidence with a single definition might that not be valid? You use the word: "Consciousness" as if it actually exists, no...
February 18, 2021 at 23:28
Hi darkness. Well, we have here a very trivial point. All I can say is this. I have read thousands of books in my long life and many of them have been...
February 18, 2021 at 16:16
You say: "I find most of my thinking involves relating activities. That is how I organize my day, This has to be done before that, and something else ...
February 18, 2021 at 03:11
A possible solution might be to adjust your environment so that it includes a higher percentage of compatibles. Like moving to live in today's equival...
February 16, 2021 at 17:17
Your words reminded me of my own school years. I was a "creative bohemian outsider" but the pressure to conform in my school was so strong I frequentl...
February 15, 2021 at 17:58
No, I do not think that there can be understanding without thinking, almost by definition. I might say this. Thinking is usually considered to be thin...
February 15, 2021 at 17:01
There is no such thing as subjectivity. There are only subjective thoughts. All thoughts exist as living matter. All thoughts are tangible. All subjec...
February 14, 2021 at 23:16
As to the first I emhatically agree with you about the complete primacy of Talking. As to your second I am not sure that thinking and talking and unde...
February 14, 2021 at 17:55
You say: "Thoughts are arrangements of neuron-firing patterns, not arrangements of brain-cells.." I take that to mean: "Thoughts are arrangements of p...
February 14, 2021 at 17:34
I would not say: "before we cross a bridge we are already on the other side." I would say: "The words themselves -"before we cross a bridge we are alr...
February 13, 2021 at 18:41
Re "Thoughts actually exist physiologically as Patterns or Arrangements of brain cells inside of human heads. Those brain cells produce tiny electrica...
February 13, 2021 at 18:25
A puzzling fact about thinking. 123 Ken Edwards 62 I stated above, (Not claimed) about the intuitive mind: It produces all emotional processes. Please...
February 13, 2021 at 18:07
Re your statement "I just don't think feelings such as happiness, anger, sadness, grief, etc. are functions of the over-mind." The words: Anger sadnes...
February 13, 2021 at 18:03
logical positivists[/quote Re - "Sorry, not to diss you or to belittle you." I might describe that statement as - "A Diss sandwiched between 2 truths"...
February 13, 2021 at 00:09
I Good heavens! The meaning of a word belongs more to the science of Lenguistics than to philosophy. I have never seriously considered myself to be a ...
February 12, 2021 at 17:51
I personally dislike the word opinion because in my mind it seems to imply: a FIXED opinion and frequently infers a high degree of rational inflexibil...
February 12, 2021 at 17:20
I was very distressed to read the words: "philosophy does not exist beyond the comprehension of the language or beyond the comprehension of ideas that...
February 11, 2021 at 19:50
I withdraw from the discussion of the meaning of the word claim because of pure bewilderment. I just looked it up and it had 14 differnt meanings. I g...
February 11, 2021 at 19:06
I might say: "Philosophy can only contain words and symbols in contrast to science which can also include physical actions such as performing experime...
February 11, 2021 at 18:53
I agree, mostly, but my answer to your question: "then where do you think that discussion will take us to?" is - I would hope that it would take us to...
February 11, 2021 at 18:40
I am not sure but I think you replied to this and that for some reason it failed to get recorded. Perhaps I am mistaken. Would you please resend your ...
February 11, 2021 at 18:29
Now I think we are discussing the meanings of two words. Are you stateing or claiming the 2 words mean the same thing? You say - state - claim that I ...
February 11, 2021 at 18:24
Does a monkey or an ape or a dog have no feelings? I have no interest or desire to support my statements. My statements are based on memories of books...
February 11, 2021 at 17:26
I stated above, (Not claimed) about the intuitive mind: It produces all emotional processes. Please read more carefully.
February 11, 2021 at 05:06
Flatly: happiness is not a function of the conscious. Not even close. Happiness is a very complex group of emotions and is not remotely in the conscio...
February 11, 2021 at 04:57
No it is not a problem not even a minor one. Where in the world did you get that data? The conscious mind braincells are easily shown to be located in...
February 11, 2021 at 03:58
A rose by any other name would smell as sweet
February 11, 2021 at 03:30
Not at all. These are my words. The more usual name is "subconscios mind" which i dislike because it implies that the overmind or intuitive mind is so...
February 11, 2021 at 01:03
I am basing this perhaps on many years reading many psychologist accounts and participating in Freudian and Dianetic therapy. I have written accounts ...
February 10, 2021 at 23:44
The conscious mind cannot produce emotions nor feelings. Emotions and feeling are produced by the vast-over mind and are, as you state, very different...
February 10, 2021 at 18:13
I said: "It can't feel. I didn't say it can feel.
February 10, 2021 at 17:40
No. Mental reading is thinking. YesI
February 10, 2021 at 17:39
The value that a person places on life in general is largely abstract and usually emotionless. The value that a person places on a loved one is freque...
February 10, 2021 at 17:23
A coincidence. I do that every morning Or what to say here.
February 10, 2021 at 02:48
Agreed . Fantasizing seems to have many ramifications and is very widely useful. Planning is nothing more than fantasizing methodically. Fantasizing, ...
February 09, 2021 at 19:05
The act of assuming is a conscious activity, It is obvious that activities require time to exist.
February 09, 2021 at 00:02
I agree.
February 07, 2021 at 22:59
Walk around my house you might see a dozen things that you don't know what they are. But you know where they came from just by reading the label. Do y...
February 07, 2021 at 22:47
Double disagreed. Without vocal chords there wouldn’t be coherent speech but there could still be perfectly intelligible communication, which presuppo...
February 07, 2021 at 22:23
You do not play chess by using words. The conscous mind can only deal with words or symbols like math symbols. It is the part of the mind that you and...
February 07, 2021 at 22:01
Certainly they can think but they can't think in words. I am assuming here that your word "think" includes intuitive thinking and other cognative nerv...
February 07, 2021 at 19:31
Yes, please. Draw me a graph. I grasp all of your clearly expressed statements but I don't understand the relationship between the first 3 sentences a...
February 07, 2021 at 19:10