Question

Can someone remind me how to think

Answer 1

Descartes - "I think, therefore I am"
SORRY I FORGOT HOW TO THINK, SO THEREFORE I AM NOT?!

Answer 2

Btw, apparently modern science has found out that thoughts don't originate from the brain, but outside of it, and our brain processes it into understandable information.


I'm looking at thought-guns in the future, where we shoot something at the brain to make it think of something

Answer 3

Never stop posting these (:

Answer 4

outside the brain? how do they figure?

Answer 5

I'm pretty sure he was just referring to sensory information. For example, light filtering into our eyes, and sound entering our ears.

Answer 6

I figured as much, but that still leaves a lot of unanswered questions

Answer 7

An example of a thought gun, could be something as simple as a speech.

Answer 8

Perhaps more on the technological side of things, which is perhaps what Michael is alluding to, being able to interfere with the process of turning sensory information into thought (making someone feel hot whilst in the snow). I've seen examples of the example I gave first hand, when my school hired a hypnotist for a party. I legit saw my friends thinking that they were burning hot, wiping away sweat that wasn't there, and even physically shivering, all in the same minute.

Answer 9

In this instance, interfering with the process is also submitting information into the system as well. Since it was the voice and words of the hypnotist who caused this. He interfered with the sense of touch, by presenting information. I'd encourage anyone intrigued by this to look up hypnotist events on YouTube.

Answer 10

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I'm looking at thought-guns in the future, where we shoot something at the brain to make it think of something
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Essentially, the unit of the nervous system works is the neuron, which works on ion-voltage channels that depend on Na+ and K+ ions with Ca+ doing regulation in between synaptic clefts.

With that in mind, if we are able to create an electromagnetic field around the brain we can force it to think in certain directions. This is really how MRIs work, by creating a magnetic field to align the brain's neural impulses and then capture images.

So now let's engineer our brains to be able to shoot energized particles abroad to others and then force others to think how we want them too >:)

Answer 11

Sounds a lot like a manturian candidate.