Thought Reflexes Get Conditioned Very Strongly, And They Are Very Hard To Change. And The Also Interfere. A Reflex May Connect To The Endorphins And Produce An Impulse To Hold That Whole Pattern Forther. In Other Words, It Produces A Defensive Reflex. Not Merely Is It Stuck Because It's Chemically So Well Built Up, But Also There Is A Defensive Reflex Which Defends Against Evidence Which Might Weaken It. Thus It All Happens, One Reflex After Another After Another. It's Just A Vast System Of Reflexes. And They Form A 'structure' As They Get More Rigid.

-David Bohm

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Thought Reflexes Get Conditioned Very Strongly, And

David Bohm

Thought Reflexes Get Conditioned Very Strongly, And They Are Very Hard To Change. And The Also Interfere. A Reflex May Connect To The Endorphins And Produce An Impulse To Hold That Whole Pattern Forther. In Other Words, It Produces A Defensive Reflex. Not Merely Is It Stuck Because It's Chemically So Well Built Up, But Also There Is A Defensive Reflex Which Defends Against Evidence Which Might Weaken It. Thus It All Happens, One Reflex After Another After Another. It's Just A Vast System Of Reflexes. And They Form A 'structure' As They Get More Rigid.

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Another Problem Of Fragmentation Is That Thought Divides Itself From Feeling And From The Body. Thought Is Said To Be The Mind; We Have The Notion That It Is Something Abstract Or Spiritual Or Immaterial. Then There Is The Body, Which Is Very Physical. And We Have Emotions, Which Are Perhaps Somewhere In Between. The Idea Is That They Are All Different. That Is, We Think Of Them As Different. And We Experience Them As Different Because We Think Of Them As Different.

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