Which Came First, The Thought Or The Body?

actually it does, you're just not seeing it. but it is of course not the only possible answer.

also "everything has a name"? wrong. far more things inevitably exist then have ever been observed by any sapient observer, or are ever likely to be, to give names to them.
this is your dear old ego fallacy, that nothing can possibly exist without yourself (or at least something sapient) knowing about it, which is nonsense.

 

Well it is an attempt to put the question to rest by saying they arise together which is true, absorption and reflection but there is also polarity or the direction of flow between these two. Something puts a spin on the process affecting some particles and not others or at different rates or intensities. Obviously the chicken egg scenario is a feedback loop. No starting point on a circle but when you scribe it you will do so in a specific direction. Three properties in matter, absorption, refection, and polarity. With these three coordinates we can triangulate position.

A thing is a name that applies to anything described or not and it would be quite the challenge to identify one who has no name.

 

I agree we are all the same thing. As far as notions, that we describe implies that there is something we can describe. A and B need proximity or space to communicate.

 

Out of the void? Are we void?
"Have you heard?
Now you know that you are real"

 

"Show your friends that you and me
Belong to the same world,
Turned on to the same word,
Have you heard?"



I think, I think I am, therefore I am.....I think.

Of course you are my bright little star, I've miles and miles of files
Pretty files of your forefather's fruit and now to suit our great computer,
You're magnetic ink

I'm more than that, I know I am, at least, I think I must be.

There you go man, keep as cool as you can.
Face piles and piles of trials with smiles.
It riles them to believe that you perceive the web they weave
So keep on thinking free
and live each day on the threshold of a dream



:daisy:

 

You know it took me a long time to learn that there is nothing essentially false or unworthy in what we are or in our creative capacity. Yes we can be mistaken and we can learn anew, at the same time we can be right on, right here, right now.

 

The thought is not integral to the personality... Which came first, the personality or the body, is the question.

 

Interesting way to put it.