(September 4, 2009 at 4:25 pm)fr0d0 Wrote: Ppl here have suggested that thoughts are physically existent in themselves. Although I disagree and think whatever electro chemical composition masses together to form them, this doesn't represent the thought itself, much like documents on my computer... it's dead storage.If I've understood this correctly, you are saying that the actual thought is all in the interpretation of the brain. It is made up of physical electrical signals, but is meaningless unless interpreted by the brain, at which point it becomes a "thought". Your analogy being that documents stored on a computer are all 0's and 1's and in that respect meaningless unless you open the document in a text editor.
Have I got that right? Hopefully so, because I think the point I'm trying to make here is that in this case, the brain itself is interpreting and giving meaning to the thoughts, which does mean they exist in some physical form. Documents on a computer exist in some physical form (as bit marks on a hdd), but it only has meaning when the physical forms are brought together and read properly.
