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Letter: Thought thoughts

Published 9 October 2013

From Frank Fahy

In Tim Bayne’s essay on thought he suggests that “we can think about nothing at all” (p 32). He later writes that “to think of something is to bring it to mind in some way”. Although I think that I am not thinking when doing something that has become automatic through repeated practice, I find it impossible to bring nothing to mind.
King’s Somborne, Hampshire, UK

Issue no. 2938 published 12 October 2013

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