The nature of Thought

0 Given no other context, I would take your sentence as "Though is a process performed by biochemical reactions in the brain cells" 02br
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0 Thanks Paco. Can you look for any other meaning on psychological arena. Can it be anything else other than the suggestion that thinking is a biomedical process. JKrishnamurti didn't use the subject as "Thinking" He used "Thought" Can you think about it little more vertically. 0-

0 The first definition of the noun "thought" in the Oxford English Dictionary is "the action or process of thinking; mental action or activity in general, especially that of the intellect; exercise of the mental faculty; formation and arrangement of ideas in the mind." 02br
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00The noun "thought" can also mean a product of that mental activity "thought". But whoever can i

0 I'd be inclined to agree with Paco. Without more context, or more information about the writer's philosophy, 'material' here does seem to mean 'physical'. 02br
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00I suppose we should exclude this definition of adj. 'material': 02br
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002 : having real importance or great consequences 00 [Merriam Webster]. 02br
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0 PS: Though if we call 'thought' 'material', it's difficult to see what we can call 'non-material'. And if we have nothing to call 'non-material', perhaps the word 'material' becomes meaningless. 02br
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00In other words, the term 'matter' presumably depends on the traditional distinction from 'mind', if it is to have meaning. 02br
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00But that's me

0Krishnamurti is more effective if you just lie back and let his words flow around you, anyway-- without trying to analyze them to clinically. 02br
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0 I agree that JK is more effective if we just lie back and let his words flow around, any way without clinically examining them. I also realize that words are not the things. I was trying to get the meaning because I had always been assuming that thought has no mass and therefore it is not material. However your words are more meaningful to me, thanks 0-

0 Can you please elaborate a little more whether at all Thought can be material process in the sense that it is a matter just because it is a output of a mechanism using bio chemical mass called brain. I also strongly feel that a recorded music on a material magnetic tape is not a material. It had only rearranged the little magnets on the tape. It is the same way thought cannot be material s

0 I suppose you could say that the rearranging of the little magnets is a material process; and the playing of the tape is a material process; and the music that is the output of those two processes is 'manipulated air', and so also material. Then it reaches the ear: material again; at which point we return to our original question... 02br
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00We might also ask, if thought

0 Dear Mr P 02br
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00I think I should get the context in which JKrishnamurti spoke this sentence. That will help all of us. Can you give couple of days or so? 02br
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