Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!wor-mein!pete
From: pete@wor-mein.UUCP (Pete Turner)
Newsgroups: comp.ai
Subject: Re: Free Will and Self-Awareness
Message-ID: <1365@wor-mein.UUCP>
Date: 10 May 88 15:27:49 GMT
References: <8805092354.AA05852@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>
Reply-To: pete@wor-mein.UUCP (Pete Turner)
Organization: Quantum Medical Systems, Issaquah WA
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In article <8805092354.AA05852@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> eyal@COYOTE.STANFORD.EDU (Eyal Mozes) writes:
>all the evidence I'm
>familiar with points to the fact that it's always possible for a human
>being to control his thoughts by a conscious effort.
>

What evidence is this?  In my own experience, while I can generally concentrate
most of my thinking on a particular subject, occassional apparently irrelevant 
thoughts drop in unbidden.  

If a particularly positive or negative experience has occurred recently in my 
life, no amount of concentration will keep thoughts of it from popping up at 
any time.  

Am I unusual?  I don't think so.

Starting right now, don't think about an elephant.