Alliance for Mystical Pragmatics

Alliance for Mystical Pragmatics

Harmonizing Evolutionary Convergence

Glossary Menus

tong-

PIE base ‘to think, feel’.

Derivatives include thought and thank, from Old English thanc ‘thought, good will, gratitude’ and thancian ‘to thank’.

[Pokorny *tong-1 (*teng-), p. 1088]

thought experiment

To explore the similarities and differences between humans and machines, in May 1980, after resigning from my marketing job with IBM in London, I began a thought experiment in which I imagined that I was a computer that switched itself off and on again, so that it had no programs within it, not even a bootstrap program to load the operating system, not unlike those that led Albert Einstein to develop the special and general theories of relativity.

think

In my experience, thinking is the way that thoughts, as new concepts, emerge in the Cosmic Psyche, directly from the Divine Origin of the Universe in the Eternal Now. To think is thus a Cosmic happening, as an anthropic instance of general creativity.