Thread: "Thought" world-view (very interesting)

This is not according to beliefs, this is observable. What is your definition of a thought? Can you brush your teeth with a thought?

According to this theory, any material is a thought. So yes, you can brush your teeth with a thought and it is preferably called a toothbrush.

Isn't this the whole basis of your theory that the world we live in is built out of our unconscious assumptions and that if we freed ourselves from these assumptions then we could do anything?

Not necessarily, I am of the opinion that there does seem to be a default physical law.

And couldn't there be a God if I believed that there was with this theory?

I am not sure, I think it is an assumption that belief can alter things in the world.

Originally Posted by elucid

According to this theory, any material is a thought. So yes, you can brush your teeth with a thought and it is preferably called a toothbrush.

What purpose or insight do you gain by calling material thought? What difference does it make? Does the toothbrush actually exist outside of your mind?

Originally Posted by elucid

Not necessarily, I am of the opinion that there does seem to be a default physical law.

What causes it?

Originally Posted by elucid

I am not sure, I think it is an assumption that belief can alter things in the world.

Isn't that the theory? That you can think something into happening?

What purpose or insight do you gain by calling material thought? What difference does it make? Does the toothbrush actually exist outside of your mind?

A great deal, we can then move on to saying that this whole thing is a dream of a sort, we can then also assume that since material is thought, therefore, when we think, we are creating material, thus the creation of energy. Goes to show how we produce the electricity, the required energy/material for our day to day jobs.

Originally Posted by elucid

A great deal, we can then move on to saying that this whole thing is a dream of a sort, we can then also assume that since material is thought, therefore, when we think, we are creating material, thus the creation of energy. Goes to show how we produce the electricity, the required energy/material for our day to day jobs.

Firstly, how do you go from perceiving the world as a concentration of thought to perceiving the world as a dreamlike state?
Secondly, how do you know we are creating material? If material is thought, like you say, then how does it follow that we can create thought for if we are just a concentration of thought, how can thought create thought? And we're not REALLY creating energy because energy, according to you, is just thought behaving in a certain manner.
Thirdly, we don't necessarily 'produce' energy. We convert matter into energy and this energy dissipates.

Particle physics has already determined that the stuff of reality is essentially immaterial. Upon close inspection, the smallest sub-atomic particles cannot be said to actually exist but can only be described by the ways in which they interact with each other, or in other words; what information they communicate. If one were to define thought as the communication of information then this 'theory' of yours would be old news. It is old news anyway since this is essentially the nature of reality proposed by buddhism and other eastern religions/philosophies.