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Bernardo
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Originally posted by Mentat
. . .is there a point in time where I thought about pizza, or is that an event smeared out over time?
Of course there is, it's called the present.
Would the chain of events that took place happen without that thought? The origin of this particular 'event chain' occurred on it's own. How can a series of events begin without something to begin with?
The thought, "I want pizza", was initiated by your bodies examination of it's current condition of hunger. Your mind is able to
-harness this incoming information (present condition),
-knowledge from the past (where you got good pizza before)
-manipulate the current environment (phone the order in)
-to produce a satisfying result in the future (it arrives).
All this by using the present as a pivot point.