You mean like; an individual thought we don't choose. But by thinking enough thoughts we can decide which thought is the best and THEN we think something like "I'm going to the shops now".
Kind of like a process of elimination thing? We have to think about nonsensical, unimportant, random automatic stuff in order to find a thought that's actually useful? It just happens?
But don't the conscious choices like "I'm going to the shops now" just come out of the back of our mind as well? Don't thoughts just happen in our head?
How do we choose thought with thought?
For example if we use our other thoughts to decide to go to the shops. And that thought it conscious and deliberate; then how CAN it be conscious and deliberate if all these other random thoughts that we are using to interpret our reality 'just happen'.
How are conscious choices chosen if all the other thoughts aren't? What are they chosen with?
What are thoughts chosen with, how are they chosen? We make choices with our thoughts; but how do we choose our thoughts then? With more thoughts? How does that work? Isn't that some kind of contradiction?
Sorry if it's overly bizarrely philosophical or something; but I'm afraid I'm very interested in this kind of thing
EvF
Kind of like a process of elimination thing? We have to think about nonsensical, unimportant, random automatic stuff in order to find a thought that's actually useful? It just happens?
But don't the conscious choices like "I'm going to the shops now" just come out of the back of our mind as well? Don't thoughts just happen in our head?
How do we choose thought with thought?
For example if we use our other thoughts to decide to go to the shops. And that thought it conscious and deliberate; then how CAN it be conscious and deliberate if all these other random thoughts that we are using to interpret our reality 'just happen'.
How are conscious choices chosen if all the other thoughts aren't? What are they chosen with?
What are thoughts chosen with, how are they chosen? We make choices with our thoughts; but how do we choose our thoughts then? With more thoughts? How does that work? Isn't that some kind of contradiction?
Sorry if it's overly bizarrely philosophical or something; but I'm afraid I'm very interested in this kind of thing
EvF
