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| What Is Thought? |
| 06.08.04 (2:06 pm) [edit] |
have any of you wondered what thoughts are? i mean, are the just a bunch of electrical impulses in our brain? And what happens after we had a thought? does it go somewhere else? this may sound stupid but, sometimes its really irritating when i suddenly think of something then it disappears like smoke a second after. This is a question that hold real importance to me, because thought is what makes us different from other biengs in our world. can anyone explain the awareness of self and environment which destinguishes life from inorganic matter?
We have used our intelligence for many practical purposes. Some of which helped us have a better understanding of ourselves and nature around us. Yet we have used it for something else as well. We created worlds of wonder and horror, and within these worlds we put creatures such as unicorns, dragons, gods, demons, knights and wizards. worlds where light and darkness fight a never-ending struggle against each other piting each sides champoins on the battlefield. And yet we have also created other mythical creatures who are neither dark or fearsome, these are simply a pleasant product of our imagination- Santa Claus, Jack Frost and even the easter bunny =). not only did we create these things intellectually, we also believed in them in varying degree. these days we talk of little of these things of the dark. yet there is still an inbred fear of what lurks in the dark, the unknown and the unseeable. People think it is childish to think of warewolves and ghouls, but it is all right to believe in a technical wraith such as flying saucers( or at least more than vampires and warewolves).
we think of thought as a mental process electrical impulses traveling around our brain. but we know no more about the thought process, maybe even essn than the ancient greeks about the atom. we talk today of thought today as the ancient greeks in the time of democritus may have talked(sparingly and without too much conviction or belief) about the atom, and with as little understanding. we are in short just mouthing words without really having any understanding.
we do know something of the result of thought. all that mankind is today is the product of our thinking. but this is the result of the impact of the thought upon the human animal, as steam makes an impact upon a mechanism and makes an engine run.
so now we might ask, once the steam has made its impact and performed its funtion what happens to it? i think its just as logical to ask what happens to thought once it has made its impact. does it change to another form like energy, or does it drift off into space to fall upon another person to recieve it =). What happens to though once it has done its job. where does it go, what does it do, do the thoughts of people long dead still exist? hmm... simple questions are the hardest to answer arent they. =)
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posted by: raindropecho (reply)
post date: 06.08.04 (2:22 pm)
From readings that I have done, I believe that thought is an external essence and that without the external world, no concrete thought that contains distinct details can be formed. Factoring in my science background, yes, thought is just firing of neurons that are transmitted then diminishes. But I usually throw all that away and just think that thought is what it is and we will never be advanced enough to understand ourself and how we work when thinking.
Just curious, are you an externalist? And since you're interested in thought, have you read about epistemology?
posted by: Boogerschnot2 (reply)
post date: 06.09.04 (3:02 am)
I havent read any book about epistemology. can you give me a good title? anyway i just wrote this because i was just curious about it. thinking, abstract and concrete ideas, thought i have been curious about all this things ever since i was a kid. it was only a few years back that i was able to put my ideas into order. anyway i agree with you about science being able to explain things about the workings of the brain, the thing is though is that the mind is a million times more complicated than the brain since it is limitless in its potential to create. anyway thanks for the comment.
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