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Immaterialism
I was thinking about thoughts today. In fact I was using thoughts today as I thought about them. The thoughts I thought regarding thoughts were neurons firing in the brain, and sensory perceptions, memories, and colors, images, and the brain.

I thought why does it feel like I think from my head. Why am I not in my foot for instance? Or over there in that tree? Or even inside your head behind your screen? Well, my uneducated guess would like to point out all the many senses located right there on my head. Sight, hearing, smell, taste, feel. That sounds like all of them. Not only that but it's where oxygen enters and the brain gets early access. So maybe it makes sense that I am so firmly seated up here.

Thinking on it some more and I come up with rather extensive clout to astral projection. Why shouldn't it be possible? What are these thoughts after-all? If you chopped me up on a cutting board would you find them? If I was sent on a mission to find and gather a thought, where would I start looking? Well, to start off I think I would need to think on it.

So thoughts are immaterial. I think we can all agree. So who is to say that there aren't other immaterials floating out there in this world of ours? Maybe we know some little science behind thoughts, but we don't understand them like we might a table, or a tree.

Why shouldn't there be other kinds of immaterialism?

I am mostly an atheist, but I wonder a lot.
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