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Hello Richard, forgive me if this is known to everyone and an old subject here, but what exactly
is thought? What is the neuro-physiological process supporting awareness in the absence of thought?  |
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What determines your actions? Your thoughts – right? Do you control your thoughts? Where do
they come from? Can you CREATE thoughts? If so – HOW do you create them? So if you are not creating your thoughts – who is? |
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Let us first differentiate thought from perception and from feeling. When we look at the
varieties of thought we can posit at least six basic forms: ... Would you like to add any before we begin our discussion on whether there
is a common structure to all? |
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Thought creates the notion of a ‘me’ and a ‘not’ me. A ‘me’, a watcher, a
detached something could never see this since it is what thought creates. The existence of a ‘me’ or an idea of some detached
position is merely imputed by thought, so it can never see or observe anything. That is the meaning of ‘the observer is the
observed’. |
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What was the instrument used to measure all this [12-14 milliseconds for the nerve signal to
reach the amygdala]? How is thought measured and how is it determined as arising from that source? |
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Richard, I have some questions: Is ‘human intelligence’ or ‘thinking’ or
‘thought’ (as distinct from the mind of a dog or even a gorilla) the result of or the property of or the ability to abstract? Is
cause/effect the way thought must operate, otherwise it is not called ‘intelligence’ or ‘thought’? But thought is not an
awareness, is not a perceiving faculty, not a sense organ, so that couldn’t be right. What is the relationship of thought, language,
intelligence, the power of abstraction and apperception? |
