philosophy
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Is thinking conscious or unconscious?
There are two ways to define thinking: each leads to a different answer to the question of whether thinking is conscious or not. Thinking as a subjective experience. If someone asks you what you are thinking about, you can introspect, and describe your thought process. You can also say that you weren’t really thinking at all.…
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To participate in this Consciousness Survey, you’ll need to find the answer to a very easy question
Interested in participating in a (totally unscientific) survey on consciousness and related questions? The link is in the preceding post. Once you complete the survey, you’ll be able to see the results. It should take between 20 and 45 minutes to complete, and will hopefully be stimulating, at least somewhat. The password for the post…
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Synchronicity, Coincidence and VALIS
Synchronicity is coincidence right? Here’s how Wikipedia defines the concept: “Synchronicity is a concept, first explained by psychiatrist Carl Jung, which holds that events are “meaningful coincidences” if they occur with no causal relationship, yet seem to be meaningfully related.” Since meaning is in the eye of the beholder, I suppose you get to decide if a coincidence is an example of…