Does anyone ever wonder what goes on in other people's heads?
I wonder if other people dream while awake as much as me. Not day-dreaming, as in thinking about how you'd spend $10 million; but rather spends hours every day constructing worlds which don't exist and populating them with approximations of people you know and people you've never met.
I wonder what another person's internal monologue sounds like? We know from anthropology that just the presence of outsiders effects the behaviour patterns of the subjects. Would it affect the dreams of another to have them sleep knowing you'd watch them dream? Does the influence of the hypnotist affect the dreams; does it affect the memories of the patient?
Does the fact that I believe my conciousness, the core of who I am, to be the working of the synapses of my brain make my brain function any differently than someone who believes in a soul? Does my belief in love being a chemical imbalance in the brain mean that my love is different than someone who believes in the Hallmark Cupid? I mean, does it actually alter the love itself?
I've been questioning a lot recently; I think it's good for me.
I wonder if other people dream while awake as much as me. Not day-dreaming, as in thinking about how you'd spend $10 million; but rather spends hours every day constructing worlds which don't exist and populating them with approximations of people you know and people you've never met.
I wonder what another person's internal monologue sounds like? We know from anthropology that just the presence of outsiders effects the behaviour patterns of the subjects. Would it affect the dreams of another to have them sleep knowing you'd watch them dream? Does the influence of the hypnotist affect the dreams; does it affect the memories of the patient?
Does the fact that I believe my conciousness, the core of who I am, to be the working of the synapses of my brain make my brain function any differently than someone who believes in a soul? Does my belief in love being a chemical imbalance in the brain mean that my love is different than someone who believes in the Hallmark Cupid? I mean, does it actually alter the love itself?
I've been questioning a lot recently; I think it's good for me.
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Since philosophy isn't really my strong point, I will try to tie some of this into my field of study.
If I remember correctly, one of the implications of the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle is that an observer always affects what he or she observes. I have no doubt, then, that the presence of other people has some affect on how one thinks or acts (even on a sunconscious level).
Nor would I say that thinking about consciousness or love as a set of biochemical processes is any less correct than thinking about them in any other way.
And now my brain hurts.