Sentential Logic, Validity, Dead Metaphors, and Thought

I argue that thoughts that are not necessarily attendant with feeling and, in fact, can be contrary to the feelings we have of them. But if thoughts are feeling based, then such thoughts should be impossible. But they are not impossible. They are actual.

ConferenceReport's video "Counting Feels":
http://youtu.be/RddABmQ7QXc

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Education

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• thought
• consciousness
• feeling
• logic
• metaphor
• validity
• philosophy
• propositions
• arguments

[Monolith1618]

@pyrrho314 Thanks for clarifying :D

[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]

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...

[niriop]

I think its one of those Wittgensteinian muddlings

[Hythloday71]

@Hythloday71 - and pyrho, looking below.

[Hythloday71]

Sounds like CR is definitionally stretching his postion.

[pyrrho314]

a thought is a kind of feeling.

[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