Chris/Krimel and Ian --
[Chris]: > I'm writing some history papers etc, but I did amuse myself > a while ago by asking around a bit on a internet forum with a > philosophy section about how people defined ideas and thoughts. > About the only answers I got was "electrical impulses in the brain" > - meaning basically that they don't think there is anything but > objects. I was just wondering, how would any of you > answer to this. [Ian]: > Chris, I would say Ideas and thoughts exist as ... > patterns that emerge in, or can be represented in, patterns in > physio-electro-chemical activities in a "brain". [Krimel]: > Nice answer, Ian. I was prepared to just say, yes. Except electrical > impulses aren't strictly speaking objects and the impulses in the brain > are > at least as much chemical pulses as they are electrical. But, yeah, what > you > said... Yeah, yeah. Certainly can't be anything but "objects" -- that would make it mystical, supernatural, even theistic! Except that thoughts, ideas, patterns, and impulses are not objects, substances, or things. Maybe consciousness is a level like Intellect. Where is Bo when we need him? --Ham Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
