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Politics : Should God be replaced?
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To: LLCF who wrote (24274)7/2/2006 3:51:00 AM
From: Solon  Read Replies (1) of 28931
 
"you don't "formulate" the vast majority of them AT ALL"

You perhaps wish to be snippy over the use of words. My point was that ideas are not things that are "discovered" by people. They are simply how people experience and interpret those experiences. At the simplest level it is about knowing a difference between hot and cold, soft and hard, light and dark, wet and dry, etc. As the central processing unit (the brain and its feeders) becomes more sophisticated...the "ideas" involved with our perceptions take on finer levels of complexity. The simplest thoughts are direct perceptions such as pain or pleasure. The pain does not exist independently of the person experiencing a biochemical reaction in nerve endings. Pain that existed to some Egyptian getting bit by a snake 5000 years ago is a pain independent and separate from every other pain ever experienced.

When a person is unborn--no ideas. When a person has a stroke, his/her ideas are dramatically affected. If all thinking creatures are dead there are no ideas. That is my point. If you don't understand that, then you don't understand it. You only have your brain to work with in these matters. Different brains are able to apprehend ideas at different levels of complexity.
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