Ok I'm going back to PD

@!Co-Owner! simply put: to make choices. We make millions of them each day subconsciously.

No but the mind

When you're actively -------

i was gonna say to think critically but not many people can do that as it is

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Critically thinking isn't exactly but it is thinking

We have the mind to think

The mind is the processing center for all of the visual/audio and olfactory sensory input we receive constantly and continuously.

That's the brain

I mean the actual mind mind

The mind PROCESSES this. The brain is the motherboard.

I don't think you're thinking of the same thing as I

When I am told to close my eyes and imagine

That's the mind I'm taking about

Ok. If you close your ryes and imagine a boat, the first thing you'll see is the last time you saw a boat.

Then your mind 'catalog' will continue backwards from there. Giving you boats based off of a timeline of you seeing/using boats.

Not exactly

I just pictured a sketch of a boat when you said that, I've never seen the sketch of it

Or, your mind will show you the most positive experience you had on a boat. I thought of boats, and my immediate thought was sailing with my dad.

Nope

@!Co-Owner! Ah. Are you sure? You could've been flipping through a magazine, saw it as you drive by a shop. The mind takes in EVERYTHING.

I know about how you dream and see faces you see anywhere like on tv but

This boat

I've never seen it

Did you ever try to read the book a movie was based off of AFTER you saw the movie? It kind of sucks.

I did yes

All you see in the characters is the actors and not the authors visualization of the characters.

Mhm

I am validating that the mind is a catalog processor by using that as an example.

Ok well when I'm thinking about morality, how the universe was made, why am I here, what doth life etc

What catalog am I reading through

@!Co-Owner! Ah. Well, there is the environment you grew up in. That is a BIG factor in how you interpret the world. Also, belief in a god. Faith. That is another big one.

as in 'why were people given the ability to think for themselves at all and not just follow their instincts all the time like animals?'

I grew up in Australia

I was a hard atheist

But here I am

Ah. I hear you. And i traveled the same road that led me here too. Lots of preconceived notions have been shed.

So you were like me and have ended in the same destination?

Instead of: I AM GOING TO MAKE THE WORLD **MY** PLACE!
I now go with: I AM PART OF THIS WORLD.

@!Co-Owner! Uh, like religious?