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willowMar 18, 2025

sometimes the perchings are more like crash landings

willowMar 1, 2025

alternation of flights and perchings :)

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William James - The Stream of Consciousness
https://psychclassics.yorku.ca/James/jimmy11.htm
'Substantive' and 'Transitive' States of Mind. -- When we take a general view of the wonderful stream of our consciousness, what strikes us first is the different pace of its parts. Like a bird's life, it seems to be an alternation of flights and perchings. The rhythm of language expresses this, where every thought is expressed in a sentence, and every sentence closed by a period. The resting-places are usually occupied by sensorial imaginations of some sort, whose peculiarity is that they can be held before the mind for an indefinite time, and contemplated without changing; the places of flight are filled with thoughts of relations, static or dynamic, that for the most part obtain between the matters contemplated in the periods of comparative rest.

March 19, 2025 at 12:10 AM