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From: bph@buengc.BU.EDU (Blair P. Houghton)
Newsgroups: comp.ai
Subject: Re: Here's one ...
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Date: 16 Oct 88 21:07:06 GMT
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Reply-To: bph@buengc.bu.edu (Blair P. Houghton)
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In article <409@soleil.UUCP> peru@soleil.UUCP (Dave Peru) writes:
>>>
>>>Have you ever thought about what the brain is doing between thoughts?

In article <1116@buengc.BU.EDU> bph@buengc.bu.edu (Blair P. Houghton) writes:
>>
>>Sleeping.

In article <1614@cadre.dsl.PITTSBURGH.EDU> cww@cadre.dsl.pittsburgh.edu.UUCP
(Charles William Webster) writes:
>
>Do you mean that between the rapid succession of conscious "moments"
>is a sleeplike state, or that there is nothing between these "moments", 
>except longer periods of sleep?  Much current research on dreaming
>is converging on the generalization that dreaming is a kind of
>"consciousness".  If this were true, then what is between dream
>thoughts?  You may have been joking but I think it would be fascinating
>if the the brain was sleeping between "thoughts".   But would it be
>the sleep of dreams or the sleep of little deaths?

I meant that there is no "between thoughts" except for sleep,
expecially the deeper sleep, not that associated with partial
consciousness, such as REM sleep.

				--Blair
				  "...with a hedge for whatever
				   non-thinking states
				   meditationalists are able
				   to achieve..."