danddman thoughts

It just occurred to me that not everyone thinks as I do. I am not talking about the content of our thoughts you sillies.Of course, everybody has different thoughts, opinions, beliefs, wherefores, and etc.Just ask them.They’ll tell you.They will.Can’t get ‘em to shutup (shut up? Shut-up?).I am talking about the actual thought process or processes used to reach a conclusion.Why do some of us have thoughts that “just occur to us” as in, “It just occurred to me that not everyone thinks as I do,” and the rest have to muddle their way through unfathomably deep thinking processes to reach the same conclusion?

Do you remember the movie Rain Man (Rainman?Rain-Man? Rain-man?)? Dustin Hoffman had a condition where stuff just occurred to him.Throw down a handful of wooden match sticks and it would occur to him how many there were.

“163.Yeah, yeah, that’s it exactly. 163.Time for Judge Whop-en-er.”

He was able to do it, the matchstick (match stick?Match-stick?) trick, without thought or attention.Remember how he always knew what time Judge Judy was on TV?Remember how he knew this even though they were traveling all around the country in different time zones with different TV stations in different cities?Remember how he did this with no apparent thought or the aid of a TV Guide?Remember?

A lot of us would have to count out the darn matchsticks.I have to put them into little piles of 5 or 10 and then count them that way because the thought process of counting them is too tedious a task and takes time because I forget what number I am on.

Do not laugh at me for forgetting.I am trying to develop a unified field theory (what are you thinking about?) and that takes a lot of concentration.Moreover, you would have thought that at some point in that movie, Dustin would have gotten angry and yelled, “Will you please quit throwing those mother trucking (mother-trucking? Mothertrucking?) matches around the room.”I’ll bet that never occurred to you, did it?

But it occurred to Dustin.All those answers with no apparent effort on his part. 163, yeah, yeah that’s it.

What if Tesla said to Edison, “You know, it just occurred to me, if you tried a carbon element filament that light bulb thingie of yours might work.”

He would be plenty pissed, Edison would.After trying over a thousand different materials to have it occur to someone, out of the blue, on their first try.

“Hey Tommy, why don’t you try this stuff.”

“Okay Nicolai, whatever made you think of carbon filaments?”

“I don’t know.It just occurred to me.Like I was in an altered state or something.It just came to me out of the blue.”

“Just occurred?Out of the blue?Ha, that’s a good one, just occurred,” Minutes pass, Edison continues muttering and tinkering. Suddenly, a small flicker of light transpires and he shouts, “SON OF A ZEBRA (That’s English for Eureka).IT WORKS,” and there was light.

“I told you so,” smirked Tesla.

“Well blue boy, you can take your altered stating occurrence stuff and go to Colorado.You’re fired.”

And that’s the way it happened historically friends – Edison said, “altered stating occurrence,” but Tesla, who heard with an Italian accent for no apparent reason, heard the words, “alternating current,” and went on to develop AC powerstrips (power-strips? Power strips?) in the hopes that one day someone would invent AC power.

I can hear some of you smirking out of the corner of my eye.“There must have been some thinking involved.Something like that does not just ‘come out of the blue’.”

We saw Rain Man.He came up with answers out of the blue.(Please don’t muddy this issue with puns involving rain and blue skies.The skies wouldn’t be blue if it was raining – they would be cloudy and gray.)Instead, we will look briefly at another example before I get to the point of this foolish nonsense (non-sense?).

Leibowitz (he was a mathematical genius) and Newton (he invented cookies) both came up with calculus (the mathematics that describe change) at pretty much the same time and without discussing it with each other.

We know they didn’t discuss it because they had no language which would allow them to discuss it.Leibowitz invented the notation mathematicians use to torture college students with to this day.Iconically, Newton is credited for “discovering” calculus, but it was Leibowitz who developed the language that allows us to use calculus.Newton, unable to tell anyone about calculus, probably would have forgotten it altogether (how do you remember something if there is no word for it?) and we would still, to this day, be using abacuses to build computers.

The point is that the answers are there, probably to everything, just waiting to be occurred.Does this occurring occupy space in a linear or non-linear sense? I’m trying to ask if the answers float around or are they fixed in space and/or time and require us to bump into them for them to manifest? Who then, if anybody, put them there?Are they placed in our realm of existence at specific times (like only when humanity is ready for them), or, as we evolve, if you believe in evolution, I don’t, are our brains evolving into better receptors of these answers?Do humans have, like ants, the ability to think as a group mind?Are we unconsciously, telepathically, and quantumly entangled to the degree that generating the answers as a species, as we need them, is as natural as breathing.Is our species, as a whole, a super computer like Doug Adams suggests in The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy?Or, are the answers independent of the questions (I.e.; “the sun appears to rise in the east” is an answer but the question could be one of millions: which way is east? What piece of knowledge do most people have in common?How does the Earth’s rotation affect my perception?)?Is there an example of questions with millions of answers?Do things really go better with Coke? Are there any answers that do not have a corresponding question? If you are waiting for an answer from me, don’t.I asked you first.

If it occurs to you first however, the answers to any of these questions, or any other questions, please post a comment.Lastly, I will compile a list of answers to see if these group minds think thing works.And, are there any answers that do not have a corresponding question?

Any questions?I am just asking is all.