Sentential Logic, Validity, Dead Metaphors, and Thought

[niriop]

I think its one of those Wittgensteinian muddlings

[Hythloday71]

Sounds like CR is definitionally stretching his postion.

[Hythloday71]

@Hythloday71 - and pyrho, looking below.

[pyrrho314]

a thought is a kind of feeling.

[Monolith1618]

You mean because we sense thoughts as we would sense a physical object? I think the two still exist on alternate (though interconnected) levels being experienced by awareness. Is that what you mean? I'm interested in your interpretation...

[pyrrho314]

@Monolith1618 : I believe that but no, I mean it is a kind of feeling, like, "I am hungry"... "I am thinking"... it is made of types of emotions... e.g. discovery/eureka are emotions that happen to be intellectual emotions.

It is literally a feeling. E.g. you feel confused, you muster a feeling of interest, you gather information, you feel confused about the information and so you try to feel clarity with it etc etc

All thought is feeling, and what we call "thinking" is just one type of it.

[Monolith1618]

@pyrrho314 Thanks for clarifying :D

[Monolith1618]

The brain developed as the nexus of sensory experience, then gained the ability to emote and later the capacity for abstract thought and linguistic comprehension/communication. While the brain can feel before it can think, the immaterial mind can access these capacities autonomously. It's a slightly muddled distinction but I'm pickin' up what you're puttin' down. Thanks for sharing, this is gold. :D