Ken Edwards

Participating in this discussion I have become convinced that I have been on the wrong track. I stated: "Here it is a Puzzling Fact. A person cannot t...

You just did. Go buy a Movement detecter.

No I dont think it moves backwards but it does move forwards in time. our personal use of concepts derives from the cultural-collective heritage

I agree, In the beginning I said: "have important Philosophical Ramifications even though I can't think of any. We are wallowing in trivia.

Re your words: "our personal use of concepts and the cultural-collective heritage within which those concepts evolved and were transmitted." I agree. ...

MWW Your words: "I think your basic contention is mistaken. That which seems like internal vocalizing, is still merely thinking, and nothing I think r...

It doesn't matter.

Lets see uh. . Both thinking and reading are mental but so is everything else. For example: fearing and hating etc. and I don't like the word mental b...

No, reading does not enter into it, the phrase that you are thinking might be taken from the memory or simply invented or a phrase from the default mi...

Was your mouth wide open? Were you reading at the same time?

Was your mouth wide open? Were you reading at the same time?

Was your mouth wide open? Were you reading at the same time?

You don't know that because you were speaking super softly. But you were twitching the speaking muscles. You could only cofirm that eith a movement de...

Exciting to know! You might have an important new, time saving reading aidand teaching aid that should be widely know. What did you think about my bas...

I am not sure yet what stories are Where in this forum. I began a long thread in "Interesting Stuff" It is called "All in your head. Some simplified t...

Article submissions. Do you still allow artical submissions. I have an artical that begins with an anecdote but works thru what I consider to be an ar...

Thank you very much I am working on a few things. My approach is observational rather than scholastic

I am not thinking about the meanings of these words: Thinking Doupting and Walking. I am merely using these words as examples of Actions that are perf...

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Agreed (I think). But imagining and rating are thinking. So your thinking is belitteling itself. And why not?

Hi again Khaled. You said: ''I’m not sure if it makes sense to say “thoughts are patterns” rather than “thoughts are caused by patterns”. But this mig...

Hi The opposite. A rose is a rose is a rose. Your statement isn't very smart and it isn't very dumb either. It is just the opposite.

Hi Tres Bien. I like your statement: "I love the stories that capture the essence of an issue. We seem to be able to intimately appreciate only that w...

Hi Khaled. The conscious mind is located in the prefrontal lobes which is that bulge in your head just above your eyes. You can see it. No other anima...

What makes you think that this was "useful data" after the calf was dead? Oops, I meant useful to the calf, not useful to me. What do you think causes...

I would push back on this because I don’t think it’s obvious that all actions unequivocally exist. When I jump, for instance, something called a “jump...

Sorry, I sent you an incomplete suggestion. I should have said: "I doubt, therefore I am" "Doubting" is an Action and it is an obvious truth that all ...

Very well. The difference between walking and doubting is that walking is an action performed outside of my brain whereas doubting is an action perfor...