Do changing thoughts become unchanging? Do unchanging thoughts change? Are fogotten unchanging thoughts remembered unchanged??? In the tangle of changing & unchanging, how do we find each other? Where do changing thoughts search for changing us? How do unchanging thoughts know changing us?
In the RIDDLE CALLED THINKING, If Thoughts do not understand themselves, how are we to know EACH OTHER??? Can you solve this Riddle ???HAHA
2007-06-19 15:26:48 · 6 answers · asked by Rita 6 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
You can get to know one another more by feeling. There's much less thinking involved & a lot less complicated.
2007-06-19 16:59:12 · answer #1 · answered by ___ 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I agree that feeling has a lot more relevance and substance than thinking. Cognition is a result of emotion anyway. Thoughts are things not entities so therefore they can't really understand themselves can they. It's like asking if a radio signal understands itself. Sometimes we just need to accept that what is just is, without questioning it.
There is no such thing as past and future, there is only the present moment, the past was once the present and the future will someday become the present. This means that all thoughts are unchanging, how can a thought change? It already happened, you can't re-think a thought, you can only have a new thought, even if the new thought is trying to interpret or re-think a previous one, it's still a new thought.
As for the last part of the "riddle", we really only know each other from our own individual perceptions. We never truly know another person because everything that is felt, thought, experienced etc, is just a subjective interpretation of reality. What looks green to you may also be green to another person but they see green as the colour you call red. How do we know anyone if it's all just individual interpretation? We don't.
Chris Lyons.
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2007-06-20 00:58:14 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well thoughts are the product of thinking. Too think about something, gives rise to a thought at the moment. So to think about a thought gives rise to a thought about the prior thought. So the original thought, as you put it, would remain unchanged. However when you say an unchanged thought, that thought would not exist until the mind thinks about the object or conception which the thought was about and thus, I believe that a thought does not exist until it is truly a product of current cogitation and thus a thought cannot be changed or unchanged. So I think your riddle really does not make sense and all those paradoxes are a result of your brain wanting to make a fool out of me!
2007-06-19 22:33:33 · answer #3 · answered by chessaholic 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well, I see a number of logical errors. Your question was good before, but your details has self contradictory defining process, e.g. a changing thought is not an unchanging thought; the 'un' prefix changes its conjoined word to its negative and/or passive form. Anyway, to save time, let's go back to your original/initial question: 'which thoughts are changing and which unchanging?' 'Thought' as the essential substance for the mind is the mind, 'a thought' is a singular form of the mind, form is differential from or for other form and thereby has identity. The logic for thought and as thought its self is representative for thought, and thought which is not representative is sense memory as the five perceptible organic senses and the spiritual sense whose organic natures description is constructed in historical rationalism. A construction whose foundation and substance is memory its self can not persist as identity but perhaps as chaos, i.e. self can not exist as self perception because there would be no recognition of an identity that is no longer its self, i.e. a thought that changes its self.
2007-06-19 23:21:14 · answer #4 · answered by Psyengine 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Really, you are saying nothing more than repeating yourself with this; like the riddle of the Circle of Sin, you get so caught up in looking for the exit, you lose sight of where the beginning is, then try searching for a meaning to explain it all in life.
2007-06-19 23:15:19 · answer #5 · answered by Lief Tanner 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
pardon me lady avatar for being frank, (or french) ...
S O S, different day. To think of thoughts in riddle form, provoke thinking thoughts, that usually lead to thoughtful thinking. To reach an epiphany in thinking one must understand the thought. When that is reached there is no more riddle. ...understand? ...good, (i dont?)
2007-06-19 22:48:02 · answer #6 · answered by burn out 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋