Brad writes:
If I was a proffessor like my brother, I probably would get the opportunity to talk like/as I think.
Well, not necessarily. The most important part of being an educator is the ability to communicate in a manner that most people, if not everyone, could understand. Trust me, it's harder than most people think to have to communicate something that is so obvious to you but not so obvious to others, especially when you're trying to exploit to the full extend their attention span.
It is not so much that I get sidetracked or have "random" thoughts. It is that I would prefer my life to be lesiurely enough, for me to follow up a mental process to conclusive fruition, but not being rich, the necessities of life bear in, and rather than say *something* I tend to say nothing.
But obviously, as far as you communicating with us online like this, this is not true. The reason I think your mental processes tend to get sidetracked is because most of the time you tend to introduce what seem to many if not all of us completely unrelated subjects and names to the discussion.
I think what you are trying to tell me is that you like to take leisure in expressing your ideas in, what many of us would call, "too many words". Of course this method of communication was widely used by just about everyone back in the old old days when people had too much time on their hands. Anyone can get a sample of this by reading The Scarlet Letter by Hawthorne or Frankenstein by Shelley.
I, on the other hand, consider myself a minimalist. This is probably why I have such a hard time trying to grasp what you say on here.
I have never really felt the "sympathy" posts that others have made on EVC, thinking, there is something mental here, where in fact it is simply that I have a very causal physical perspective hard to express in print. I often simply have to sprint through it, leaving jargons to be the doors shut in the process of becomeing all gone.
I don't think I've read anything that could be considered a "sympathy" post for whatever it is that you have, if any. I think it's mostly just how you often baffle people with your very unique style of communication.
I think that James' view that Russell...
Hahaha... philosophers are second in rank on my hate-list.
Russel went on to distinguish mental facts and mental entites. I took that quickly that mental facts are what psychiatrists get paid to diagnose and the entities are the actuall brain things going on, but then again I have had some peculiar ideas of the nervous system, so perhaps I should not anticipate that synapse crossing when we come to it.
I must admit that I haven't run across this concept before, even though I have certainly studied the works of many philosophers before and after Kant.
I have had a lot of experiences that others have not that I can draw from to make small talk. I generally have not engaged in this on EVC.
Perhaps it would help those of us that are simply curious about you to figure out some things if we start having small talks. How about we set up a time to meet in EvC chat?
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