Please use this thread for discussing Ch. 11: Sensational Thoughts.
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I would like to read Philosophy of the Flesh, which was quoted near the start the chapter, since Lakoff's other books have contained many worthwhile ideas.To summarize: Thoughts require sensory information. A disembodied mind cannot contemplate beauty or feel the differences between love, infatuation, and pure lust. To avoid confusion and chaos, our brains have sensory systems that selectively tell us when we are thinking a thought. These sensory systems also determine how we experience mental cause-and-effect and intentionality.
My bold of the word feeling. The word is the problem. Feeling is used to mean sensation and emotions. I believe in this instance Burton is meaning it somewhere in between a physical sensation and an emotional feeling. The feeling of knowing is not really an emotion per say and not the result of external stimulation -- but more like external stimulation than an emotion.DWill wrote:The feeling of knowing is now labeled a sensation? I'm a little confused by Burton's nomenclature. But it seems okay to say "Awareness that we are thinking is a sensation that happens to us; it is not a thought that we can consciously will."