2023-07-03, 12:10 PM
There is another factor I thought I should mention: deliberate intention. As 'Dan' went to reach for the flour, he had an absolute certainty in his mind that he was going to add the honey to the flour. Perhaps also the fact that he had just moments earlier rinsed the outside of the jar and so even though he was fetching the flour, he was still focussed on the honey jar.
This is the bit that we find hard to grasp, that in thinking of both the flour and the honey at the same time, the thoughts were not separate in his mind, he thought of both things at once and that's what he got.
The missing part is that this is not repeatable, it appears almost to depend on a casual disregard, not any self-consciousness or stress.
At least, I'm just thinking of ideas, I don't know any of this but it's how I attempt to make sense of the world.
This is the bit that we find hard to grasp, that in thinking of both the flour and the honey at the same time, the thoughts were not separate in his mind, he thought of both things at once and that's what he got.
The missing part is that this is not repeatable, it appears almost to depend on a casual disregard, not any self-consciousness or stress.
At least, I'm just thinking of ideas, I don't know any of this but it's how I attempt to make sense of the world.