Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2000 17:04:23 -0500
From: "Dan Berkow, PhD" <berkowd@...>
Subject: Re: John H./thought

>>Tony: [snip] Thought will not destroy itself,
>>ultimately it shrinks
>>from destruction. So something other than
>>intellectualising is obviously necessary.
>
>Dan - Thanks, Tony for sharing your thoughts about
> the ending of thought. While worthwhile
> to look into this topic, if we rely
> on thought to look at thought, the games
> of thought will be perpetuated. So we
> open to something else - and that something
> else has no name.
>
> Tony, thought isn't merely intellectualizing,
> that's only one of myriad manifestations.
> Thought is involved in the very structuring
> of the cells of the human body.
>
><snip>
>
>Hi Dan
>
> Would you care/or not to expand on thought and structuring
>of human cells?
>
>John

Thought is the "structuring" of experience. Thought
gives form, relationship, association to experience.
The physical world doesn't exist apart from awareness.
The inside/outside dichotomy ultimately is unreal.
Thought structures "outside" and "inside" -- these
are actually a thought-formed relationship.
Cells are no less structured by thought than are
electric impulses in the brain. In fact, the
latter would never have evolved without the
establishment of communication by cells that
developed brains and electrochemical impulses
travelling between cells. The thought that
structures the "physical" universe is a
"different level" of thought than the
biochemical brain impulses we usually define
as the only thought occurring. The thought
that structures the physical world was
called "Logos" by the ancients.

Love,
Dan

A very complete answer - Thank you Dan.

Once on another list, far far away, there was an in
depth discussion on Logos and memes. It was fascinating to read
but way over this ones head.

Have a truly wonderful day Dan!

John