Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!rutgers!bellcore!clyde!watmath!watdcsu!smann From: smann@watdcsu.waterloo.edu (Shannon Mann - I.S.er) Newsgroups: comp.ai Subject: Re: Here's one ... Summary: One what... Keywords: thought Message-ID: <5141@watdcsu.waterloo.edu> Date: 12 Oct 88 00:33:52 GMT References: <409@soleil.UUCP> Reply-To: smann@watdcsu.waterloo.edu (Shannon Mann - I.S.er) Distribution: na Organization: U. of Waterloo, Ontario Lines: 18 In article <409@soleil.UUCP> peru@soleil.UUCP (Dave Peru) writes: > >Have you ever thought about what the brain is doing between thoughts? Thinking, what else? We are aware of one thought/idea/concept etc. at one time. Evidently, the mind does not cease functioning when we choose not to focus upon it's internal workings. There is a continuous cosmic soup of thought circulating through your brain at any one time, operating at many different levels. Our awareness is of only a small segment of the total whole. For example. The mind is constantly deleting stimulus that doesn't change (stimulus adaptation). We are not conscious of the process, yet, it is con- tinuous. Next question... Is this thought? -=- -=- Shannon Mann -=- smann@watdcsu.UWaterloo.ca -=-