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>From: petersow@saifr00.cfsat.honeywell.com (Wayne Peterson)
Newsgroups: comp.ai.philosophy
Subject: Re: Causes and Reasons
Message-ID: <1991Dec19.145650.6727@saifr00.cfsat.honeywell.com>
Date: 19 Dec 91 14:56:50 GMT
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>In article <1991Dec17.154142.21021@psych.toronto.edu> michael@psych.toronto.edu >(Michael Gemar) writes:
>>
>>*I* uniquely determine what *I* am thinking about.  I am the sole arbiter
>>of the content of my conscious thoughts.  How could it possibly be otherwise?

>   If I came up to you and beat you on the head with a rubber truncheon, your
>conscious thoughts would be altered.  You would feel pain, and possibly anger.
>You would almost certainly feel confusion.  In this way, I am altering the 
>content of your thoughts by altering your environment.  

>   Undoubtedly the thoughts that would have passed through your mind had I not
>beat upon your head would be considerably different than those which would have
>taken place had I beat upon it.
>--scott
"If you tell me that you drank the ocean dry, I may at first believe you.  But if you tell me that you can control your own mind, I'll call you a liar and a fool."  ....Kabir

If you think you control your thoughts, try stopping them.  Our thought unfortunately control us.

Wayne Peterson


