tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1365582190126322848.post8575239372005130524..comments2024-03-29T13:05:42.663+00:00Comments on conradwalks: Canal du Midi - Day 12Sir Hughhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17908756392825206914noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1365582190126322848.post-83949271687719061322015-08-30T11:48:31.930+01:002015-08-30T11:48:31.930+01:00A very logical sounding explanation from one dedic...A very logical sounding explanation from one dedicated to science to one who finds it all a bit of a mystery. Thanks.Sir Hughhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17908756392825206914noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1365582190126322848.post-68860692270817133372015-08-29T18:14:53.424+01:002015-08-29T18:14:53.424+01:00Hope you have recovered from the fall. It sounded ...Hope you have recovered from the fall. It sounded like a challenging walk and rather an ordeal in the heat.<br /><br />Interesting phenomenon - thinking of something and then doing it. It's almost certainly related to the suggestibility of your subconscious mind. <br /><br />Most of the everyday things we do, such as the action of walking, eating, getting dressed, etc. are triggered by a conscious thought but are actually carried by the unconscious part of our mind while the conscious bit of our brain starts thinking about something else. 'I'm going to put my shirt on now', for example, will trigger the action of getting dressed while you begin to think about what you might eat for breakfast. <br /><br />So, when your conscious mind thinks of an action, like falling over, your unconscious mind may attempt to be helpful and carry it out.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1365582190126322848.post-72985074064522110402015-08-27T09:08:59.097+01:002015-08-27T09:08:59.097+01:00gimmer - I have from time to time experienced a ph...gimmer - I have from time to time experienced a phenomenon which leads me to consider the plausibility of causality. For example, having the thought that I haven't fallen so far on a walk, then almost straight afterwards falling. This has happened in other contrasting contexts.<br /><br />The science studying coincidence is interesting. We often wonder at unexplainable happenings - the sensing of danger to another at the exact moment when they are miles away etc. But scientists and statisticians seem to take the romance out of these events and find logical answers.Sir Hughhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17908756392825206914noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1365582190126322848.post-35559656044061094932015-08-26T08:55:15.146+01:002015-08-26T08:55:15.146+01:00your reply to RR raises an interesting (philosophi...your reply to RR raises an interesting (philosophical? - not just semantic) point - can one plan an accident - or would would be less deterministic ?<br />I enjoyed your walk <br /> Although springtime might be kinder, I suspect that sustenance might be even harder to find !<br />(the website I referred to was for boat-hirers, and was cited to show how misleading they are, not your veracity !)gimmernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1365582190126322848.post-60380032886242581852015-08-25T07:41:25.237+01:002015-08-25T07:41:25.237+01:00RR ` I wouldn't mind going back there, but not...RR ` I wouldn't mind going back there, but not to walk in summer. If we went together do you think we could have a simultaneous accident, a bit like synchronised swimming? Sir Hughhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17908756392825206914noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1365582190126322848.post-11934765780340570542015-08-25T07:02:44.612+01:002015-08-25T07:02:44.612+01:00About four or five years ago - bringing your prese...About four or five years ago - bringing your present age and mine then more or less together - we as a family were sauntering about Lodève about 40 km north of Béziers. We had decided to inspect the huge church there and I wasn't paying too much attention when I stumbled over a parking bollard. People rushed to my aid, many of them - it seemed - older than me. My wrist was sprained but the sense of humiliation predominated. I managed to insist that a pharmacie, about to close for lunch (the time was about 12.59.5) stayed open and they sold me a wrist brace that cost an appalling €45.<br /><br />I wondered if my accident and yours were destined to happen to members of our family if we persisted in holidaying in the Languedoc.Roderick Robinsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16828395545197001637noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1365582190126322848.post-55074766820665224952015-08-24T16:22:37.012+01:002015-08-24T16:22:37.012+01:00I wondered if anybody would notice the Cognac. You...I wondered if anybody would notice the Cognac. You get bigger measures over there.Sir Hughhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17908756392825206914noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1365582190126322848.post-5005450785348049882015-08-24T14:12:34.438+01:002015-08-24T14:12:34.438+01:00Glad to see you are back in one piece from your lo...Glad to see you are back in one piece from your lovely French sojourn.<br />Brandy and cigar - you must have been pleased with completing your adventure. Well done.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com