I grow more interested in the ideas of William James on this subject. Statements such as:
The passing Thought itself is the only verifiable thinker
Thought is a passing thought that incessantly remembers previous thoughts and appropriates some of them to itself
There is a “judging Thought” that identifies and owns some parts of the stream of consciousness while disowning others
The next moment another Thought takes up the expiring Thought and appropriates it. It binds the individual past facts with each other and with itself.
In this way, what holds the thoughts together is not a separate spirit or ego but only another thought of a special kind.
seem in accord with my experience. Thus I am beginning to see “myself” as something that my body wears, a lengthening necklace of black pearls and white diamonds on a singing string—each appropriated thought a pearl, each owned part of the stream a diamond, and the “special kind” of thought my string.
I grow more interested in the ideas of William James on this subject. Statements such as:
The passing Thought itself is the only verifiable thinker
Thought is a passing thought that incessantly remembers previous thoughts and appropriates some of them to itself
There is a “judging Thought” that identifies and owns some parts of the stream of consciousness while disowning others
The next moment another Thought takes up the expiring Thought and appropriates it. It binds the individual past facts with each other and with itself.
In this way, what holds the thoughts together is not a separate spirit or ego but only another thought of a special kind.
seem in accord with my experience. Thus I am beginning to see “myself” as something that my body wears, a lengthening necklace of black pearls and white diamonds on a singing string—each appropriated thought a pearl, each owned part of the stream a diamond, and the “special kind” of thought my string.