30 Jun 18
Originally posted by @fmfWhat am I?
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"When you think about it, thinking about thinking is the hardest sort of thinking there is. Which makes you think."
Is there a grain of truth in this?
If you take one letter I am still the same.
If you take two letters away I am still the same.
If you add a letter I am still the same.
(I watched the clip till the end)
30 Jun 18
Originally posted by @fmfMetacognition (awareness of thought process) isn't difficult but it is work; just like doing chores around the house. A house gets messy not because the work is too hard, but because you'd rather be doing something else. "Thinking about thinking" is similar.
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"When you think about it, thinking about thinking is the hardest sort of thinking there is. Which makes you think."
Is there a grain of truth in this?
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30 Jun 18
Originally posted by @vivifyThis is the principle reason I didn't enjoy smoking pot back in the 1970s. It magnified my thoughts about ...well...my thoughts.
Metacognition (awareness of thought process) isn't difficult but it is work; just like doing chores around the house. A house gets messy not because the work is too hard, but because you'd rather be doing something else. "Thinking about thinking" is similar.
It really became a bore. And I'm never excited to get bored. 😛
01 Jul 18
Originally posted by @vivifyThe fact that we have the capacity for metacognition is one of the few things that gives me, an agnostic atheist, some pause for thought and prevents me from being an explicit atheist.
Metacognition (awareness of thought process) isn't difficult but it is work; just like doing chores around the house. A house gets messy not because the work is too hard, but because you'd rather be doing something else. "Thinking about thinking" is similar.
01 Jul 18
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Originally posted by @fmfWhat is an "agnostic atheist"? I know what both of words mean separately, but not together.
The fact that we have the capacity for metacognition is one of the few things that gives me, an agnostic atheist, some pause for thought and prevents me from being an explicit atheist.
01 Jul 18
Originally posted by @fmfCan you elaborate?
The fact that we have the capacity for metacognition is one of the few things that gives me, an agnostic atheist, some pause for thought and prevents me from being an explicit atheist.
I'm interested to know why metacognition causes pause with you.
I don't know much about it, and would like to understand the connection.
01 Jul 18
Originally posted by @chaney3As I have said many, many times on this forum, the wondrous amalgam of human capacities, for me, leaves the door ajar with regard to the possibility that there might be a creator or some form of central intelligence in the universe. It's certainly an interesting thing to contemplate and I have talked about it many a time; indeed, it prevents me from using the term "atheist" on its own when I describe myself. Looking back, as my Christian beliefs slipped away as I lost faith in the Bible as a credible revelation of such a creator being, I think I saw myself as a deist for quite a few years.
Can you elaborate?
I'm interested to know why metacognition causes pause with you.
I don't know much about it, and would like to understand the connection.
01 Jul 18
Originally posted by @fmfI didn't know this.
As I have said many, many times on this forum, the wondrous amalgam of human capacities, for me, leaves the door ajar with regard to the possibility that there might be a creator or some form of central intelligence in the universe. It's certainly an interesting thing to contemplate and I have talked about it many a time; indeed, it prevents me from using the t ...[text shortened]... dible revelation of such a creator being, I think I saw myself as a deist for quite a few years.
01 Jul 18
Originally posted by @chaney3You have my best wishes with regard to your health, as you well know. But people saying that they don't remember stuff or they don't know stuff, even though there have been conversations about the stuff is boring.
Stay healthy??
A jab at my past?
If so, low blow.
Originally posted by @fmfI thought you were an atheist now. Didn't know you left an option open for God.
You have my best wishes with regard to your health, as you well know. But people saying that they don't remember stuff or they don't know stuff, even though there have been conversations about the stuff is boring.
It could have been a misunderstanding on my part.
Still, no need for you to act like an arrogant, smug SOB.
I try to communicate with you, but I think the problem is that you're, by nature, just a jerk, and a real turn-off to speak with.
Most posters would agree, as you well know.