We assume that we could have made other choices in the past, Harris continues, and we also assume that we consciously originate "our thoughts and actions in the present..
"I never believed my thoughts originated in my brain, the way everyone else does," Ilse went on.
But he added, "A lot of my most profound thoughts originate from being involved in this struggle.
Functionalism, in psychology, a broad school of thought originating in the U.S. during the late 19th century that attempted to counter the German school of structuralism led by Edward B. Titchener.
For, as the 19th-century man of letters Paul Leicester Ford indicates in his preface to the almanac, while it is true that most of the thoughts originated with Franklin's predecessors, the reason they are remembered today is because they were filtered through his extraordinary brain and "tinged with... Mother Wit".
It's much wider at the top of the funnel, and harder to pin down where the thoughts originate (pun intended).
According to Desgabets, the proper sense of the empiricist motto is that all thoughts originate by the senses [a sensu] rather than in the senses [in sensu], and what reaches the intellect is not what is found in the senses.
If commercial entrepreneurship is originated from economic thoughts, its social orientation is more akin to sociology, although it is neglected up to now, and maybe because of this negligence we do not have sound theories in and universal consensus on this realm.
However, it didn't originate as the thoughts of a radical jihadist nor a Bond villain dead set on taking over western Canada.
This quote by Warren Ellis best describes this situation: "If you believe that your thoughts originate inside your brain, do you also believe that television shows are made inside your television set?" In the presence of excellence who wants to be ordinary?
