[cryptome] Re: counting thoughts
- From: coderman <coderman@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: cryptome@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 26 Dec 2014 08:16:50 -0800
On 12/26/14, doug <douglasrankine2001@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> ... why not try this little
> experiment. It won't take up much of your time, it won't cost you any
> money, it won't do you any harm, and you can do it in a jiffy.
>
> Can you count your thoughts...And here, I don't mean sheep or other
> animals or things, or numbers,, avoid them, but a thought, just as a
> thought comes into your head and you reject it, you move on to the next
> one...without developing it any further?
an interesting question, which gets to the heart of the some of the
hardest problems.
somewhere between attention, awareness, consciousness,
"thought" becomes a thing unto itself.
to quantify this is to know ourselves more completely than ever before.
in short, i have infinite thoughts. now, you ask which ones i select
to think in this very moment? aye, there's the rub...
:)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broadbent%27s_filter_model_of_attention
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consciousness
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophy_of_mind
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