Re: Re: Re: Re: What is thinking ?

2012-08-31 Thread Roger Clough
. - Receiving the following content - From: Craig Weinberg Receiver: everything-list Time: 2012-08-30, 13:25:09 Subject: Re: Re: Re: What is thinking ? I think that thinking can be best understood as hypothetical feeling. If you start from sensation and allow that through time, memory

Re: Re: Re: What is thinking ?

2012-08-30 Thread Roger Clough
Time: 2012-08-30, 12:14:37 Subject: Re: Re: What is thinking ? Hi I agree with what you say about thought but the question was about thinking which to me suggests a process. The word thinking is a verb, meaning something (the thinker) is doing something (thinking). There is a dictionary

Re: Re: Re: What is thinking ?

2012-08-30 Thread Craig Weinberg
I think that thinking can be best understood as hypothetical feeling. If you start from sensation and allow that through time, memory would elide separate instances of sense together, giving us meta-sensation or emotion. This can be thought of as an emergent property, as a melody is an emergent