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[Cramulus]

the average human has less than three original thoughts per week

Hi Professor,

a) Where did you get that statistic?  I wouldn't have imagined that the number was anywhere near that high. 

b) I would have guessed that the average human has about three original thoughts per lifetime.

Pastor Mullah Zappathruster

a) I made it up
b) yeah you're probably right, but I want to make it sound like an attainable goal.

[hunter s.durden]

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[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

I just try to surprise myself and make myself laugh once in a while. It's the best I can do.

*nod*
This is also the correct motorcycle.
Also the classiest way of going about things.

At least I got one thing right.

<sad sigh>

[Triple Zero]

it's kinda hard anyway to compare thoughts between two different minds and then argue about whether they're similar enough to be considered the same.

i mean, one mind has had different experiences than the other, and thoughts are sort of made up of connections between these experiences, so it is kind of impossible for two minds to think the same thought, because the meaning of that thought to those minds can never be exactly the same.
and even if you go for "similar enough" it's already hard enough to even match up, lay two thoughts next to eachother in order to compare them.

ok, so if you convert the thoughts to some predefined written language, in one agreed upon wording, you could compare them. but is that fair, what if two unique trains of thought lead to something, that when transcribed turns out to be the same?

(just merely pointing out the anally obvious)

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

I figure that any thought that is new to the thinker is probably A Good Thing and an indication that the thinker is awake. I also think that most thinkers don't have new thoughts very often, even the most awake of them.