First of all, when I read this I tried to ask myself how do I think? Where do my thoughts come from? What is a conscience? To be honest, when I did this trying to be all scientific and smart and think with logic and reason... it hurt my head. I came to the conclusion that thinking was hard.
On pages 471 and 472, Locke is asking basically what thinking is and where it originates. He mentions how he believes it comes from our experience in our senses and our mind working in and of itself. Maybe I misunderstood when I read this, but that second one kind of sounds like a "Duh statement". Duh we think when our mind starts working on what we have thought about... it also somewhat sounds like circular reasoning. I personally think Locke is just overthinking it. I also think that he couldn't grasp the idea of what thinking truly is because of what Kayla said in her blog post. She made the point that Locke believes knowledge comes from experience alone. If that is true, then where is God involved in this? The same thing applies to our ability to think. If God is not considered as a factor as to why humans have the ability to think, then we either A.) do not consider all of our options as to why one can think, or B.) we put God in a box.
I personally believe that the only reasons humans have the capability to think is because we were made in the image of an intelligent, creative, all-knowing, all-powerful, personal, and humorous God. Not to say that we look like God, or are like God in the sense of perfection of holiness or anything like that. Humans can never measure up to God in that sense. I do however believe that God made us with the ability to think because He first had and has the ability to think. Not only that, but it think He wanted to give some of His creation the choice to worship Him. Does He need our worship? Absolutely not. If we never ever even thought of God in the entire existence of humanity, He would be perfectly fine. He is completely self-sustaining and self-sufficient. He does not need us, but He wants us. He created a being that he loved dearly and wanted to give the option to love Him back. If we could not think, then we could not choose. If we could not choose, then we could not love. Love by definition cannot be forced. I am completely open to the possibility that I am wrong, so if I am then I guess rip me a new one in the comments! Let me know what you guys think.
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On pages 471 and 472, Locke is asking basically what thinking is and where it originates. He mentions how he believes it comes from our experience in our senses and our mind working in and of itself. Maybe I misunderstood when I read this, but that second one kind of sounds like a "Duh statement". Duh we think when our mind starts working on what we have thought about... it also somewhat sounds like circular reasoning. I personally think Locke is just overthinking it. I also think that he couldn't grasp the idea of what thinking truly is because of what Kayla said in her blog post. She made the point that Locke believes knowledge comes from experience alone. If that is true, then where is God involved in this? The same thing applies to our ability to think. If God is not considered as a factor as to why humans have the ability to think, then we either A.) do not consider all of our options as to why one can think, or B.) we put God in a box.
I personally believe that the only reasons humans have the capability to think is because we were made in the image of an intelligent, creative, all-knowing, all-powerful, personal, and humorous God. Not to say that we look like God, or are like God in the sense of perfection of holiness or anything like that. Humans can never measure up to God in that sense. I do however believe that God made us with the ability to think because He first had and has the ability to think. Not only that, but it think He wanted to give some of His creation the choice to worship Him. Does He need our worship? Absolutely not. If we never ever even thought of God in the entire existence of humanity, He would be perfectly fine. He is completely self-sustaining and self-sufficient. He does not need us, but He wants us. He created a being that he loved dearly and wanted to give the option to love Him back. If we could not think, then we could not choose. If we could not choose, then we could not love. Love by definition cannot be forced. I am completely open to the possibility that I am wrong, so if I am then I guess rip me a new one in the comments! Let me know what you guys think.
I commented on Spencer's and Kayla's posts.
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