BrienneYudkowsky comments on Training Reflective Attention - Less Wrong

21 Post author: BrienneYudkowsky 21 December 2014 12:53PM

You are viewing a comment permalink. View the original post to see all comments and the full post content.

Comments (30)

You are viewing a single comment's thread. Show more comments above.

Comment author: BrienneYudkowsky 24 December 2014 09:11:02PM 0 points [-]

I said it because of how I think about thoughts. When i say "thought", I mean anything that is happening in consciousness. Any sensation, any mental event that you're subjectively experiencing. When I say "conscious", I mean "you're experiencing things" (and maybe also you're awake). So if you're not experiencing things, you're not conscious. So if I taboo "thought" and "conscious", then I'd express this bit as "Try to stop having mental events. (You can't actually do that while in a state that affords trying, of course. Trying is a mental event.)"

Comment author: gothgirl420666 25 December 2014 07:26:59AM 0 points [-]

Oh, okay. To me a thought means something more along the lines of the things the little voice in your head says to you.