It would seems thoughts maybe are atomic in nature as the secret claims (which I guess explains the law of attraction via electromagnetism) because fMRI scans which use magnets can’t prove telepathy in twins despite years of anecdotal evidence saying twins are linked telepathically. Unless the universe is dualist in nature and thoughts are spiritual but interface with the electromagnetic material nature of the physical universe. Or if relational consciousness is true and thoughts are emergent from the interaction between sensory input and brain processes or thoughts arise from relational interaction between brain regions. Then thoughts could still somehow be linked to electromagnetic brain waves in dualist or materialist philosophies.
What exactly is the evidence that the Secret uses to claim that thoughts are “atomic”? I can’t reconcile that with the common writing advice that a sentence should contain only a single thought.
“A sentence should contain a complete thought.”[1]
“One thought per sentence. Readers only process one thought at a time.”[2]
“The point of a sentence is to communicate a thought—that’s basically what a sentence is, a complete thought.”[4]
Some even suggest that only one thought should be expressed in an entire paragraph.
Even looking at a simple sentence like “The Cat is Sleeping” I’m not sure how this could be encoded in a single atom in the mind—because it requires a knowledge of what a cat is, what sleeping is, and how to perform the Categories denoted by “the” and the coupla. Most thoughts are more complex.
What, then, exactly constitutes a thought? Not in the materialist sense, but in the phenomenological sense. At what point would a sentence contain two thoughts rather than one?
It would seems thoughts maybe are atomic in nature as the secret claims (which I guess explains the law of attraction via electromagnetism) because fMRI scans which use magnets can’t prove telepathy in twins despite years of anecdotal evidence saying twins are linked telepathically.
Unless the universe is dualist in nature and thoughts are spiritual but interface with the electromagnetic material nature of the physical universe.
Or if relational consciousness is true and thoughts are emergent from the interaction between sensory input and brain processes or thoughts arise from relational interaction between brain regions. Then thoughts could still somehow be linked to electromagnetic brain waves in dualist or materialist philosophies.
What exactly is the evidence that the Secret uses to claim that thoughts are “atomic”?
I can’t reconcile that with the common writing advice that a sentence should contain only a single thought.
Some even suggest that only one thought should be expressed in an entire paragraph.
Even looking at a simple sentence like “The Cat is Sleeping” I’m not sure how this could be encoded in a single atom in the mind—because it requires a knowledge of what a cat is, what sleeping is, and how to perform the Categories denoted by “the” and the coupla. Most thoughts are more complex.
What, then, exactly constitutes a thought? Not in the materialist sense, but in the phenomenological sense. At what point would a sentence contain two thoughts rather than one?
http://www.dailywritingtips.com/simple-sentences-period/
https://advicetowriters.com/advice/2016/6/16/one-thought-per-sentence.html but also https://writingscientist.com/sentence-structure/
https://arc.educationapps.vic.gov.au/learning/sites/english-literacy-skills-lesson-plans/2535/A-sentence-is-a-complete-thought
https://www.millersbookreview.com/p/how-long-should-this-sentence-be