What is Thinking? - part 3 of 3
Thinking Together: introducing my husband
Transcript
All these connections/thoughts take place more or less simultaneously, on different levels, consciously and subconsciously, and as the current visits a container, it alters it a bit.
Me, looking at this model, talking to a man with springy red hair who just entered: “A great model, don’t you think?”
Man: “But is it accurate?”
Me, looking at the reader: “Let me introduce you: this is Yiri, my husband! He’s a comic artist as well, and he colors this book!”
Thinking on your own is all well and good, but new thoughts only really thrive on a bit of input and back-and-forth!
Yiri, knocking on a glass box in which I am isolatedly thinking thougths: “Have you tried this thought yet?”
Me, in a car on the freeway: “Thinking by yourself is like riding the freeway: quick and easy…”
Yiri, pointing to an exit off the ‘Trodden Path’, to ‘elsewhere’: “…but you can only reach your destination by pulling off the road somewhere. This way!”
Yiri: “I see the brain more like a computer with internet-access. When the computer breaks down, it’s not the end of the internet - or of the person behind the screen!”
Me: “Interesting! Reality is full of information we can not perceive directly - we can only access it with the appropriate devices…” (we see a figure walking through radiowaves and internet, with a picture of a radio and a computer in tow)
Me: “We can consider body and brain as instruments, tuned especially to receive sensory reality! Body and brain as ‘reality browser’!”
Taking the ‘reality-browser’-analogy, then THINKING is the method by which our instrument (body+brain) processes the information we receive. (picture of a brain, processing Reality through the Senses into Reality As We Perceive It)
Me: “Maybe there are more methods of processing than just our own - just as there are different methods in computer programming. And maybe the end of the body and brain is not necessarily the end of consciousness!”
Me: “At least, that’s what I like to think! And who knows what I’ll be thinking at 45!”
Yiri: “Because THINKING is constantly changing! Especially when you get regular input - and accept it!”
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Brilliant, Margreet!