davidelkins Posted July 15, 2015 Share Posted July 15, 2015 Philosophically speaking, is it possible to put a thought into a box? DE Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phi for All Posted July 15, 2015 Share Posted July 15, 2015 Aren't all thoughts already in a box? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Endy0816 Posted July 16, 2015 Share Posted July 16, 2015 It all depends on your definition of a box... Give me a chance to dig mine out, I put it away in storage. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
swansont Posted July 16, 2015 Share Posted July 16, 2015 Are you speaking philosophically, or metaphorically? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrP Posted July 16, 2015 Share Posted July 16, 2015 I could write my thought onto a piece of paper and put that into a box.... would that count? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Klaynos Posted July 16, 2015 Share Posted July 16, 2015 Might be easier to just put your head in a box... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phi for All Posted July 16, 2015 Share Posted July 16, 2015 Might be easier to just put your head in a box... Not THAT one, that's where I keep my hope fireworks! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MonDie Posted July 16, 2015 Share Posted July 16, 2015 (edited) 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, 2015 by MonDie 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Cuthber Posted July 16, 2015 Share Posted July 16, 2015 Hasn't any of you tried thinking "outside the box"? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dimreepr Posted July 16, 2015 Share Posted July 16, 2015 Yes but it hurt. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MonDie Posted July 16, 2015 Share Posted July 16, 2015 That thought is in a box, John, a white box with a gray-blue border. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Strange Posted July 16, 2015 Share Posted July 16, 2015 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. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phi for All Posted July 16, 2015 Share Posted July 16, 2015 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. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
conway Posted July 16, 2015 Share Posted July 16, 2015 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! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bill Angel Posted July 19, 2015 Share Posted July 19, 2015 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". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eise Posted July 22, 2015 Share Posted July 22, 2015 Would questions in a box do? 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gees Posted July 23, 2015 Share Posted July 23, 2015 Eise; That was funny. + Gee Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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