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# Stream of Consciousness
- URL: https://thedailyeudemon.com/stream-of-consciousness/
- Published: 2022-07-10T04:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2023-07-10T12:16:01.000Z
- Author: Eric Scheske
- Tags: Philosophy, Briefly

William James' stream of consciousness addresses that fundamental fact of our mental world: thinking cannot be stopped. We "think" like we breathe. 

James' observation, says Jacques Barzunm

> "explains without moralizing what that wonderful self-observer Montaigne found as the chief mark of man: he is \[diverse and wandering\], a creature of moods and changing views, not a passive recorder of the surrounding world but a congenital 'perspectivist,' and thus easily thrown off in judgment, memory, and purpose--a specialist (as it were) in misunderstanding." Jacques Barzun, *A Stroll with William James*.

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