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Originally Posted by wolfgang  Thanks for asking clarifying questions- I must admit I'm being a parrot of listening to Bruce Liption stuff. |
Questions are a good habit. Helps to keep you from being programmed by someone else.
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Originally Posted by wolfgang A self conscious mind, I gather, is a definition of that part of you that isn't programmed into the subconsiousness. So that answer to : is a self-conscious mind programmed? would be no - kind of by it's definition. |
Instead of responding directly to this, I'd like ask whether or not you consider yourself a competent computer programmer. I'm not presuming that you are one at all, but that falls inside the parameters of the question.
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Originally Posted by wolfgang that line is that only theconscious part is able to hold and imagine the concept of time. Anything that can't or doesn't have that ability is the subconscious. |
Near as I can tell, this definition does not make any kind of statement regarding programs. Awareness of time does not seem to suggest in inability to be "programmed": can you spell out the connection for me?
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Originally Posted by wolfgang The thinking mind, or that part of us that is aware and flexible and not habitual and free will, is capable of conceptualizing and looking forward or remembering the past - this is a function of our awareness. The subconscious is not able to think like that - it's just programed responses. |
So, let me ask something: can you show that the "thinking mind" exists, within the frame of a history? (Speaking of which, have you ever read a biography or full-page obituary, such as can be found in The Economist?)
Also, I've mentioned economics in this thread before, but I just discovered this Wikipedia page, which might be of interest:
Experimental economics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (And this article is really, really shoddy by Wikipedia standards; I'm going to go hunting for how to flag an article as needing clean up.)