Both strains of thought are connected in that predictive policing was born out of research conducted by US Army researchers looking to predict the next overseas insurgency.
The transition from this "subjective" time (Ich-Zeit) to the time-concept of pre-scientific thought is connected with the formation of the idea that there is a real external world independent of the subject.
By contrast, another patient who reported having paranoia pre-procedure found that it was exacerbated after the therapy: "'I don't believe that I can speak as coherently—I don't think my train of thought is connected.
In several dialogues this thought is connected with a belief in the immortality of the soul; we become like the god by paying attention to the immortal and best part of ourselves (e.g., Symposium, 210A-212B).
As we shall see, externalism can suggest that Descartes is unable to know that his own thought represents, say, elm trees (vs. beech trees) without knowing that it is elms (and not beeches) that the thought is connected to in the world.
Harris states, for example, that "There is no region of the brain that can be the seat of a soul" (p. 116), but there is no region of the brain that tells us where experience comes from, why the color red is red, how one thought is connected to the next, or how electrical activity in the neuron produces the sight, sound, and texture of the three-dimensional world.
"Thoughts about leaving are connected to thoughts about succession," Mr. Nunn said.
(UK15) I have developed a keener awareness of how thoughts and feelings are connected to and express themselves through the body.
McTaggart first chronicled all this in her book of the same name, asking: "if we are connected, can our thoughts and intentions affect and change the world and things 'out there?'" Her compelling evidence suggests that the answer is, indeed, yes.
These things are connected.
