RE: Philosophical ideas and acting "as though"
March 26, 2017 at 11:14 am
(This post was last modified: March 26, 2017 at 11:16 am by bennyboy.)
(March 26, 2017 at 8:04 am)Khemikal Wrote: Sooooo..you mean thinking, not meditation. We do that all the time.No, I don't mean thinking. To compare it to a computer, thinking is the contents of RAM, the function of the CPU and so on. Meditation I'd describe as rewriting a firmware OS: there's an intent to change the underlying function in a fairly permanent way. If you still want to call it thinking, I'd say it's thinking with an intent to make that thinking a permanent fixture at a preconscious level.
Quote:I think we do it more than you give us credit for, for better or for worse...we just don't reach the same conclusions or positions or behaviors you feel we should.I don't think most people deliberately contemplate scientific truths for the purpose of changing their world views at a deep level. But perhaps you can give some examples, so I understand better what you mean?
