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From: thomas@ckgp.UUCP (Michael Thomas)
Newsgroups: comp.ai.philosophy
Subject: Re: how many distinct thoughts can a person have?
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Date: 20 Jun 91 23:14:18 GMT
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Hi everyone:

         Okay, how about this, you must agree that a number is a
thought and a floating point number is a thought. So as long as you can 
count (produce numbers) then you are producing a countable number of thoughts
well I will start and count a number every second from now. You count
the numbers that I'm saying, when you stop, The Brain/mind will have
reached an uncountable number of thoughts. (and if you didn't catch it:
If you want to know how many thoughts is uncountable I will tell you
because I'm counting.... 8^)

	If you think a number isn't a thought/idea, why not? a number
is a symbol for something in the world there are three apples and four
chairs. So If I'm counting say the number of different names in the world
and any possible name I could come up with then I could go on forever
and ever and ever (until I died.)

Yes the mind can conceive an uncountable number of thoughts/ideas...


-- 
Thank you,
Michael Thomas
(..uunet!ckgp!thomas)