I am struck by a simpler thought, sitting here in Brussels: the UN projections, if borne out by reality, would imply a startling shift in the EU's balance of power.
We are drained of everything but simple thoughts.
The Other TaxPayers' Alliance, the splendid antidote to the Tory-inspired TaxPayersimpleiance, adds simple thoughts such as "Don't cut the public sector" and "Tax the rich more".
I made awful, croaking, animal noises and screamed into my pillow, but running through my mind were these beautiful simple thoughts like, "We were so close".
When Josef Ackermann, a former chief executive at the Credit Suisse Group who arrived here in 1996, takes over on Wednesday as chief executive of Deutsche Bank, he will do so with three simple thoughts at the forefront.
The challenge to associationism is to explain how an associative mechanism can give rise to the syntactic structures necessary to distinguish a complex thought like birds fly from the temporal succession of two simple thoughts birds and fly.
As long as the two simple thoughts are reliably causally correlated so that, for a thinker, activations of birds regularly brings about fly, then that thinker has the associative structure birds/fly.
This would be based on a "catalogue of simple thoughts" and an algebraic language of symbols, characteristica universalis, which would render all knowledge demonstrative and allow disputes to be resolved by precise calculation.
Either way, these simple thoughts can sabotage our best intentions.
These might seem like simple thoughts, but are founded on various distortions of information.
