William James in Podcasts
personWilliam James was an American philosopher and psychologist, known for his work on the stream of consciousness.
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The Ezra Klein Show
Our Lives Are an Endless Series of 'And'
I can. William James was the guy who gave us this idea of the stream of consciousness, you know, this awareness that your mind is always full of thoughts, many of them unrelated to the task at hand or whatever you're looking at. It's just teeming with ideas and instincts and impulses and impressions from the world around you all the time. This constant flow of thoughts in our mind.