[MD] A World of Objects

[Ham Priday]

Chris/Krimel and Ian --


[Chris]:
> I'm writing some history papers etc, but I did amuse myself
> a while ago by asking around a bit on a internet forum with a
> philosophy section about how people defined ideas and thoughts.
> About the only answers I got was "electrical impulses in the brain"
> - meaning basically that they don't think there is anything but
> objects. I was just wondering, how would any of you
> answer to this.

[Ian]:
> Chris, I would say Ideas and thoughts exist as ...
> patterns that emerge in, or can be represented in, patterns in
> physio-electro-chemical activities in a "brain".

 [Krimel]:
> Nice answer, Ian. I was prepared to just say, yes.  Except electrical
> impulses aren't strictly speaking objects and the impulses in the brain 
> are
> at least as much chemical pulses as they are electrical. But, yeah, what 
> you
> said...

Yeah, yeah.  Certainly can't be anything but "objects" -- that would make it 
mystical, supernatural, even theistic!   Except that thoughts, ideas, 
patterns, and impulses are not objects, substances, or things.  Maybe 
consciousness is a level like Intellect.  Where is Bo when we need him?

--Ham