A very odd question
Feb. 14th, 2006 10:03 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bluegargantuaHi,
OK, so when you think thoughts, when you have that internal monologue in your head. Where you "hear it coming from"? If you're like me, you "hear" those thoughts as originating in your head. Like there's a little you in there talking out loud as it mulls over whatever you're thinking about.
Does anyone think of it as any different?
I ask because it occurs to me that maybe the reason why I hear it there is because I know (and have been taught) that my brain, which is in my head, is where I think and that's why I hear the thoughts as being in my head -- because that's where they come from.
Now the intersting thing is that the Ancient Greeks (and probably lots of other cultures) believed that your thinking originated in your heart (the brain simply cooled blood). So I wonder if those people thought of their thoughts as coming from their heart and if they "heard" it coming from there.
It's an interesting experiment to try. Start up your internal monologue but instead of hearing it in your head, hear it in your chest...or your knees...or your thumbs....
Weird
Tom
OK, so when you think thoughts, when you have that internal monologue in your head. Where you "hear it coming from"? If you're like me, you "hear" those thoughts as originating in your head. Like there's a little you in there talking out loud as it mulls over whatever you're thinking about.
Does anyone think of it as any different?
I ask because it occurs to me that maybe the reason why I hear it there is because I know (and have been taught) that my brain, which is in my head, is where I think and that's why I hear the thoughts as being in my head -- because that's where they come from.
Now the intersting thing is that the Ancient Greeks (and probably lots of other cultures) believed that your thinking originated in your heart (the brain simply cooled blood). So I wonder if those people thought of their thoughts as coming from their heart and if they "heard" it coming from there.
It's an interesting experiment to try. Start up your internal monologue but instead of hearing it in your head, hear it in your chest...or your knees...or your thumbs....
Weird
Tom
