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Sure you are. When speaking internally people set up a "mirror" of themselves, speaking as if to another person (despite any internal pronoun use like "I"). If
by mratzloff 12y ago
Sure you are. When speaking internally people set up a "mirror" of themselves, speaking as if to another person (despite any internal pronoun use like "I").
If someone yells something in the forest, they are speaking to, variously, a personification of nature, the world, a god, themselves (as described above), or perhaps more literally an imagined companion.
Expression is not about the effect but the intent, even if it's subconscious.
- lutusp 12y agoYour explanation would require resolution of the mind-body problem -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mind%E2%80%93body_problem http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mind%E2%80%93body_problem -- which doesn't have a widely accepted resolution. The tl;dr: arguing that another hypothetical person is present by reference to the mind, is a non-starter, except among psychologists.