Marduk

“I don't think you will find any discussion of "thoughts having mass" in any reputable scientific book, journal or other publications, however. That is purely pseudo-science. “

I guess I meant the nature of thoughts, how they work, that sort of thing. The origin/nature of that subjective “I Am” experience.

galiel

In a striking example of premonitionous, expidicious, serendipitous, coincidous,
the incomparable scigirl has posted some links to relevant research in a new thread she created, Evolution of "mind" from "non mind": <a href="http://iidb.org/ubb/ultimatebb.php?ubb=get_topic&f=58&t=001647" target="_blank">http://iidb.org/ubb/ultimatebb.php?ubb=get_topic&f=58&t=001647</a>

Bialar Crais

First, I've had those feelings. Some words, or events, triggers a feeling of a memory, and I feel so certain, that if I could just make the hippo of recollection stir in the muddy waters of recollection I'd know what will happen next. Of course, I am convinced this is due partly to confirmation bias, counting the hits and ignoring the misses.

Also, when stufying neural nets, and some of the models of associative memories the topic of spurious attractors came up. If the human memory is a associatove memory (and that seems to be the case) then these spurious attractors could very well explain a lot of premonitions. IMHO of course.