Philosophically speaking, is it possible to put a thought into a box?

DE

Aren't all thoughts already in a box?

It all depends on your definition of a box... Give me a chance to dig mine out, I put it away in storage.

Are you speaking philosophically, or metaphorically?

I could write my thought onto a piece of paper and put that into a box.... would that count?

Might be easier to just put your head in a box...

Might be easier to just put your head in a box...

 

Not THAT one, that's where I keep my hope fireworks!

Philosophically speaking, is it possible to put a thought into a box?

DE

 

If you can believe in a box, you can think in a box. Put some thought into it.

 

To take pleasure in the box, try making love in the box.

 

That's where you'll find happeniss.

Edited July 16, 201510 yr by MonDie

Hasn't any of you tried thinking "outside the box"?

Yes but it hurt.

That thought is in a box, John, a white box with a gray-blue border.

Aren't all thoughts already in a box?

 

Apart from those of the people posting personal theories in the Speculations forum - they are, of course, totally out of the box.

To take pleasure in the box, try making love in the box.

 

That's where you'll find happeniss.

 

Not so much a jack-in-the-box as a dick-in-the-box, then.

Philosophically speaking, is it possible to put a thought into a box?

 

According to Schroedinger, the thought is both in the box and not in the box. Until we open the box. At which point the thought escapes. ("Now what did I open this box for...")

 

But that was just a thought experiment. I think.

 

Apart from those of the people posting personal theories in the Speculations forum - they are, of course, totally out of the box.

 

The OP postulates that thoughts start outside the box, and may possibly be placed inside if desired. Perhaps the speculators have spectacularly bad aim.

 

Or all their ideas are circular, and won't fit in a cube.

This is assuming that the people who speculate "don't think they ARE in the box". Because if they think that they are clearly in the box, then it is only a matter of examining where exactly the box begins and ends. Sometimes we find they were actually in the box the entire time.

 

This thread was hilarious!

Philosophically speaking, is it possible to put a thought into a box?

DE

If a thought can be represented as a quantum mechanical wave function, and the box as a potential well, then unless the sides of the box are infinitely high, there will remain a finite probability that the thought will be found outside of the box. Or expressed another way, the thought can escape the box via "quantum tunneling".

Would questions in a box do?

Eise;

 

That was funny. +

 

Gee