Quote Originally Posted by unit View Post
Debatable at best.

We use words like "wave" with arbitrary definitions to describe what we think we have observed. In fact they could just be synapse pulses triggering thoughts not unlike dreams about things that did not even actually occur.
Is a dream a thing if it is not reality?
Is this even happening or did you take the blue pill?
You raised an interesting question: is a "thought" a "thing"? Cog. psy. says "yes." Radical behaviourism says "no." Gestaltists would say no, it's process. I'll have to ponder this. Perhaps I should ask Robert Persig!