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  • Thoughts are only informed by sensory input. Nothing there otherwise.

    But if Descartes is correct, thoughts exist before sensory input. What is he thinking about? He’s a mind without a brain.

    My own mental illness reminds me my mind is unreliable. Not some indivisible font of understanding. I mean I’m mostly there. The dreams are fantastic. It’s helpful to write things down, perhaps I should go full Memento and start tattoing facts on myself.


  • unemployedclaquer@sopuli.xyzto196@lemmy.blahaj.zoneRulé Descartes
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    4 months ago

    Or… thinking is neurons and synapses and tiny bits of energy all zapping about insanely fast, but I’m just an unaccredited expert on the internet

    the definition of existence to me is just all of it, plus whatever I’m not aware of. Which might be quantifiable, but I doubt humans will ever know. And thinking is in there somehow, as a biological function