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We are not our thoughts. We are not the thinking machines in our heads. We control our thoughts, so we are more than them. These machines are merely thinking m
by leroy-is-here 4y ago
We are not our thoughts. We are not the thinking machines in our heads. We control our thoughts, so we are more than them.
These machines are merely thinking machines.
- goodmunky 4y agoMore than thoughts certainly, but don’t be so sure we control our thoughts. There is a lot of subconscious thinking machinery doing the driving. See Master and his Emissary, https://channelmcgilchrist.com/master-and-his-emissary/#:~:text=This%20book%20argues%20that%20the,quite%20different%20priorities%20and%20values.&text=%E2%80%9CI%20love%20this%20book%20above,puzzled%20me%20all%20my%20life.%E2%80%9D https://channelmcgilchrist.com/master-and-his-emissary/#:~:t...
- leroy-is-here 4y agohttps://leroy.works/articles/you-are-not-your-thoughts/ https://leroy.works/articles/you-are-not-your-thoughts/
- elif 4y agoI believe my cat is merely a thinking machine by your definition.
- leroy-is-here 4y agoNo, cats have souls. But they certainly have thinking machines.
- elif 4y agoI believe your ontology is a naively inconsistent overessentialization of miraculous paradoxes that have confounded human thinkers since prehistory.
- leroy-is-here 4y agoI’m trying to show you something miraculous. It simply involves understanding that you are not your thoughts.
- elif 4y agoA simple linguistic ontology is one of the most perverse, heuristic patterns of thought. A rock is also more than it's thoughts, and retains some degree of consciousness. Imagining concepts like souls as a sort of litmus test for consciousness only serves to reinforce a thought-based comprehension.
- leroy-is-here 4y agoI'm asking you to stop arguing inside "simple linguistic ontology".
- mythrwy 4y agoWho is this "we" you are referring to? In other words, when I control my thoughts, what is doing the controlling? (see George Gurdjieff's philosophy which speaks to this issue of the `mechanical vs the conscious`, but please don't run off and join a crazy cult and ruin your life).
- leroy-is-here 4y agoWhen I say “we”, I mean each of us. You control your thoughts. You are the doing because you choose the thought to act on.