> Carrol wrote
>
> "Absolutely. The only independent thinkers are those who were abandoned
> as infants and raised by wolves in isolation from human culture. From
> the time a baby's mother begins to babble back to its babble the baby's
> mind has been entirely enslaved. No critical thought possible from that
> time forward."
>
> Possibly why Krishnamurti called "free thought" an oxymoron. But thought
> is only a sliver of our being and culture touches upon and is shaped by
> many things outside of it.
>
> Joanna
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Critical thought, free thought and independent thought, as used in the thread all seem to presuppose the unproblematic referential univocity of the term *thought*. One need not be an eliminative materialist to assert there are serious problems with the presupposition.
Ian