Tuesday, April 1, 2008
Mode of Thinking !!!
(Hence it is probable that thinking is the action note essence of the soul!!!!!)Pg 159 What Locke is trying to say in here is that we believed that our mind is tired but even when we are sleeping our senses produce very vivid and sensible ideas. You could actually relate this with Decartes. I remember reading about his dreams . He did not understand why did they seem so real! I guess Locke made it clear for us that our mind is always working even when we are sleeping. Things that might look real are actually just dreams and things that are real we tend to put it as dreams!! I believe we all experience those kind of dreams.
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Your mind is always thinking whether you are conscious of it or not. Your dreams have to come from somewhere and I believe those dreams come from ideas in your mind. People analyze dreams and say that a lot of times things in your dreams symbolize your inner most thoughts and what you are upset or thinking about often at the time.
i think you are right he is saying your mind never turns off but i think it's interesting that while you are dreaming, you wake with vivid memories of things that did not happen but at the same time you can sleep through thunder or the house shaking. i think even though the mind does not turn off it can block somethings out while tinking about others.
I totally agree with what you are saying here. Even when our mind is tired, for instance, after you have been up all night studying or working on a paper, you still wake up remembering a dream you had, which means that your mind never stops thinking or producing new ideas.
I agree with you. Our minds are always thinking and that essentially to Locke, means that we are always existing. when we're sleeping, our bodies are not awake, but our minds always are which is why we have dreams.
I agree with u ally unfortunately i believe also that there are time in which our minds are not thinking and the only thing happening is bodily motions.
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