tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22093933.post5361739553936331969..comments2024-03-28T00:14:10.957-05:00Comments on Deric's MindBlog: Thoughts as material objects - impact on evaluationsDeric Bowndshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16617204535017208765noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22093933.post-87428664437690741612013-01-28T11:46:25.910-06:002013-01-28T11:46:25.910-06:00I see - so you and I are on the same page, then. =...I see - so you and I are on the same page, then. =)Erikhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00113019952074669440noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22093933.post-27153988577910832692013-01-26T10:31:56.793-06:002013-01-26T10:31:56.793-06:00A reader just passed on this link from Neurocritic...A reader just passed on this link from Neurocritic, which points out that Fig. 1 actually shows that throwing away the paper on which thoughts about the body are written down decreased the effect of positive, but not negative self statements about the body. <br /><br />http://neurocritic.blogspot.com/2012/11/bothered-by-negative-unwanted-thoughts.html?m=1<br /><br />Deric Bowndshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16617204535017208765noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22093933.post-10701212176058159272013-01-26T10:22:19.125-06:002013-01-26T10:22:19.125-06:00No, I was just setting up a straw man, saying tha...No, I was just setting up a straw man, saying that if Descartes was right (and he wasn't), and thought has a spiritual, non physical nature, you couldn't throw it away like a physical object. Deric Bowndshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16617204535017208765noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22093933.post-81916916062988349872013-01-25T16:03:13.055-06:002013-01-25T16:03:13.055-06:00Another timely article - I just a couple days ago ...Another timely article - I just a couple days ago discussed this phenomenon with a friend of mine who's been having difficulty letting go of negative emotions.<br /><br />That bit about thoughts being physical or not: you wrote "a thought cannot literally be thrown into the garbage, because it does not have a material or physical nature." Please correct me if I'm wrong, but this isn't true, unless some sort of dualism is true as well.<br /><br />A 'thought' is the subjective product of the brain processes that generate them, so it could be said that those processes <i>are themselves the thought</i>, and this would give them a physical form. After all, if the processes themselves cease, so too does the thought.<br /><br />Does this follow?Erikhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00113019952074669440noreply@blogger.com