Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!bloom-beacon!gatech!linus!mbunix!bwk From: bwk@mitre-bedford.ARPA (Barry W. Kort) Newsgroups: comp.ai Subject: Re: Free Will and Self-Awareness Message-ID: <31495@linus.UUCP> Date: 10 May 88 20:40:20 GMT References: <8805092354.AA05852@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> Sender: news@linus.UUCP Reply-To: bwk@mbunix (Barry Kort) Organization: Neurotic Netware, Dendrite Faults, NV Lines: 15 Summary: I can't get your idea out of my mind. 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. Our thoughts are at least partly influenced by information received through our senses. People who have witnessed a disturbing event in their lives may have trouble getting it off their minds. I think most psychologists would agree that at least some portion of the population is susceptible to unwanted thoughts. Perhaps these victims haven't discovered how to engage the conscious mind to override the invasions of the nonconscious mind. (By the way, I'm one of the victims, so I'd be grateful for any guidance Eyal can give me.) --Barry Kort