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where do ideas come from?

Submitted by Paul Grobstein on Thu, 01/28/2010 - 4:02pm.

I like the idea that the brain can "manipulate ... ideas."  But the ideas themselves?  Does the "preserve" things outside itself as "ideas," or does it create them? For more along these lines, see avoiding reality and its problems. 

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