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Showerthoughts

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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted, clever little truths, hidden in daily life.

Here are some examples to inspire your own showerthoughts: 1

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[–] themeatbridge@lemmy.world 26 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

Or, we use those terms metaphorically to help understand esoteric concepts. The mind is the moving average of the unbroken chain of electrochemical interactions between neurons. It's like a symphony of interconnected brain cells squirting neurotransmitters at each other to form a Rube Goldbergesque stimulus monster.

An orchestra is made of players and instruments and written music and all of the practice and training. The music they play is not one thing, but the combination of all things, yet we speak of the song as if it were an object.

It's the same with the mind. We think of it as a discrete, functioning machine, but really it is the product of a million tiny machines working together.

[–] slaughtermouse@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago

This is so eloquent

[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 years ago

Emergent object.

[–] PapaStevesy@midwest.social 9 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Is this news to you? People are made out of matter, we're all objects.

[–] ArchmageAzor@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (2 children)

But the mind isn't an object, you can't touch the mind. Not with your hands anyway

[–] There1snospoon7491@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

You can bend or break rules, laws, and your waifu as well. Are they objects or concepts?

[–] PapaStevesy@midwest.social 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

You can absolutely touch the mind, it's just inside your skull so it's hard to get at. What an inane thread.

[–] ArchmageAzor@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago

Sounds like somebody doesn't know the difference between their mind and their brain

[–] jesterraiin@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago

Mind can neither break nor bend. It's a figure of speech, dummy.

[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 years ago

And so is information. Inside or outside the mind.

[–] FiskFisk33@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

TIL Wolverines claws are not objects.

[–] testfactor@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

Are "the rules" also an object?