What is Thoughts: Definition and 362 Discussions

Thought (or thinking) encompasses a flow of ideas and associations that can lead to logical conclusions. Although thinking is an activity of an existential value for humans, there is still no consensus as to how it is adequately defined or understood.
Because thought underlies many human actions and interactions, understanding its physical and metaphysical origins and its effects has been a longstanding goal of many academic disciplines including philosophy, linguistics, psychology, neuroscience, artificial intelligence, biology, sociology and cognitive science.
Thinking allows humans to make sense of, interpret, represent or model the world they experience, and to make predictions about that world. It is therefore helpful to an organism with needs, objectives, and desires as it makes plans or otherwise attempts to accomplish those goals.

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    On mice, cushions and bookcases- your thoughts

    Fly like a mouse Run like a cushion Be the small bookcase What's this? A spoon. What's this? A spoon. What's this? A spoon. What's this? Osprey Farm. What's this? A spoon. What's this? A spoon. Unsettling Thought Of The Week A TAP IS DRIPPING UPSTAIRS TWARB coffee, mellow...
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    The Possibility of Mind Control: Commanding Computers with Your Thoughts

    Is there any possibilites that we can command our computers through Mind?
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    Theory of Everything - Thoughts

    Quantum entities are described as probability distributions, which are attributes of an underlying phase space, where the properties-attributes such as "spin" and "charge" are not the attributes of individual particles, but they are universally distributive entities, being the attributes of a...
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    Philosophical Thoughts On Our Perceptions of Reality

    Someone posted the following at alt.atheism: How do you know what happens after death? Have you been in that position? If we are the rational skeptics we ought to be, we will doubt that our perception of 'fleshiness', or materialism in general, is a complete and perfect perception. If we...
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    News The Reality of Civilian Casualties in Iraq

    Question: If you were involved in terrorism (although for your won cause you would probably call it freedom fighting), why would you attack innocent civilians? Sure, the idiot answer is "to create terror". But "terror" is not the goal. It is a tool. Surely they must realize that they...
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    Is Reverse Discrimination Justified in Today's Society?

    Racism... I grow up around a lot of white kids, so most of my friends are white, anyway... around where i live, whites hang out with whites (usually), asians with asians (i hang out with them too), hispanics with hispanics, etc. and one thing is really screwed up. we were at school, and...
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    Very low frequency data - thoughts?

    ((also posted to General Engineering)) Hi everybody, I'm working on a concept for a movie that I'm making. It's a fictional movie, but the concepts in it are definitely grounded in current and theoretical science. Coming from a big science background, I of course want the fictional...
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    Very low frequency data - thoughts?

    Hi everybody, I'm working on a concept for a movie that I'm making. It's a fictional movie, but the concepts in it are definitely grounded in current and theoretical science. Coming from a big science background, I of course want the fictional technologies in the movie to be somewhat...
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    Biological/DNA ComputingYour thoughts?

    Here is the future of computing whether you like it or not! Here is a site that gives a great summary of what is in the future for computers. After reading this I would like to hear your comments on the topic..I hope this thread will become a real kicker))...
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    The Origin of God: Exploring the Concept of a Divine Being

    Well I am Christian so I beleave in the God of the Bible. Anyway that is bestides the point. Well my view of everything is this. The big bang was God speaking the world into beaning. My view of God is not so much as a all powerfull beaning but more of a Math Code that is alive and that is...
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    Exploring Paul Davies 'About Time': Questions, Thoughts, Comments

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    Thoughts about Animatter and BB

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