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Apr. 30th, 2006 01:54 amThought as we know it is enabled by memory. Memory is not the assumption of a previous state but the setting of that against the present state (which can be a second memory, if one successfully ignores the world); thought is the alteration of the present state in response to the prior. A perception can alter a memory this way, a memory a perception, a memory another memory. What the state is altered into is neither a memory nor a perception, though (like anything) it can become a memory, and typically anticipates a perception. To explain the last possibility: you remember observing a man with a fever pass out, you observe you have a fever, you anticipate passing out--and then pass out or don't. The anticipatory state need not be pragmatic. Where simply accurate, we call it knowledge, where either inaccurate, complexly accurate, or playfully unreferential we call it imagination, imagining.
Thought has countless leashes on it. It is more than a game, though, more than an effect, and more than an illusion--perhaps because there are multiple leashes, multiple determining forces. It is a transformation brought about by the meeting of two worlds. If either of these is ever more real than the other, and any free or random play ever permitted by the backstage influences, a possibility of transformation toward greater accuracy or involvement exists. If the conditions permitting this can ever be recognized and either repeated or learned from, positive feedback in the direction of greater truth, or at least control over what one is by what one desires, becomes possible.
That which is recognizable/performable by a mind is alone what is real to it. Each thought is the only thought. Some only thoughts are more desirable than others.
You never think of a thing, you only think between a thing and something else, such as the world. Generally the transformation that is your thought is immediately perceptible as a new or old shape or aspect: your next thought takes place between that shape and that perception. When a distinction is hashed out it is put against the local world, or some memory, or some idea, or continuum of ideas. Regarding the latter: the stereotype of thinking is one of physical suspension while some impersonal operation runs its course. One state is held still while the mind runs others against it until it finds something appropriate to hold against it, something yielding a further chain of transformations along desired (or feared, or merely expected) lines. Note that the mind's doing this is itself a thought, a transformation brought about between the consciousness of its need and the anticipation of its being carried out.
Endgame is transformation between the best possible state and the other best possible state (not transformation into one another, but between). If anticipation can sufficiently alter the world perceived, or perception sufficiently alter anticipation, I suppose these could be identical. The best day and the best dream might be different, though. Of course, if randomness is omnipresent, at whatever level of intensity, the best each will be different from itself.
Thought has countless leashes on it. It is more than a game, though, more than an effect, and more than an illusion--perhaps because there are multiple leashes, multiple determining forces. It is a transformation brought about by the meeting of two worlds. If either of these is ever more real than the other, and any free or random play ever permitted by the backstage influences, a possibility of transformation toward greater accuracy or involvement exists. If the conditions permitting this can ever be recognized and either repeated or learned from, positive feedback in the direction of greater truth, or at least control over what one is by what one desires, becomes possible.
That which is recognizable/performable by a mind is alone what is real to it. Each thought is the only thought. Some only thoughts are more desirable than others.
You never think of a thing, you only think between a thing and something else, such as the world. Generally the transformation that is your thought is immediately perceptible as a new or old shape or aspect: your next thought takes place between that shape and that perception. When a distinction is hashed out it is put against the local world, or some memory, or some idea, or continuum of ideas. Regarding the latter: the stereotype of thinking is one of physical suspension while some impersonal operation runs its course. One state is held still while the mind runs others against it until it finds something appropriate to hold against it, something yielding a further chain of transformations along desired (or feared, or merely expected) lines. Note that the mind's doing this is itself a thought, a transformation brought about between the consciousness of its need and the anticipation of its being carried out.
Endgame is transformation between the best possible state and the other best possible state (not transformation into one another, but between). If anticipation can sufficiently alter the world perceived, or perception sufficiently alter anticipation, I suppose these could be identical. The best day and the best dream might be different, though. Of course, if randomness is omnipresent, at whatever level of intensity, the best each will be different from itself.
