Do thoughts exist?

Answer 1

let me think about it...

Answer 2

As material things? No, I dont think so. A neurophysicist would have a different thought on that to a psychologist. Its all to do with electrical charges firing up the many many neurons that go into each thought, which is so fleeting that to say they exist is like saying a 'moment' exists, when really a 'moment' is just a measurement to describe the intangible. Same with 'thought'. Its a descriptive term only.

How can we be sure anything really exists if the 'whole' is in a state of constant flux and change.

Buddhists have very interesting things to say about that question too.

Answer 3

Yes, thoughts are bio-electric impulses which fire from neurons in our brains and provide us with instructions to make things happen via choices. Without them we would be as lifeless as a rock, still as a tree and would accomplish nothing. We could not even survive without thought. When we are hungry we get an instinctive message interpreted as a thought to eat. If we didn't have this we would cease to exist, survive and thrive.

Thoughts are formed from early childhood and continue to emanate until death. They are always formed from information obtained previous of the moment they occur. However, they can take our minds into both the past and future. We need to be careful of this, since it can take us out of the present experience, directly - right in front of us - here and now.

Answer 4

Rene Descartes said I think, therefore I am. David Hume, the skeptic, said, no, that only proves that thinking exists. Well, some have dedicated their entire lives to supporting the proposition that we are here as a random accident, that life has no meaning, that free will is nonexistent, etc. Bertrand Russell was a high profile Naturalist who said shortly before his death that he wanted the moral freedom to do as he wished. So it wasn't hard to look at the evidence and conclude that life has no meaning, he said, and that there was no God who created us.

If thinking didn't exist, there wouldn't be a lot of takers on this website. I find it more rewarding to look for the purpose for my life and to live a life that has meaning.

Answer 5

Thoughts exist, the proof being that we keep having them. We actually can control what we think about (like whether thoughts exist) but the thoughts in and of themselves are ethereal. You can measure in the brain that a thought is occurring, but you can't determine what it is. So only the thinker knows what's real.

Answer 6

Yes, all kinds....the good, the bad and the ugly of thoughts--and some thoughts become actions, including the question of your thought about thoughts existing.

Answer 7

Thoughts are always going through my head so yes they do but on the other hand am I just a figment of imagination. Do we really know that we exist?

Answer 8

Dear Soul....yes thoughts do have a life of their own. The axiom is ''energy follows thoughts." Our thoughts create or destroy.
Positive thoughts generate positive energy. Negative thoughts create vortexes of chaos. Your thoughts create your level of consciousness and determines your state of evolution.
Loving thoughts heal. Harmful thoughts towards others just bounce right back harm upon you. We must be vigilent in substituting lower vibration (base, gross, negative, anger, harmful thoughts) with higher vibratory thoughts. Thoughts of upliftment toward ALL helps heal our divided and sick planet.
Thoughts that we are ALL one on this spaceship Planet Earth can create "Right Human Relations" that will then recongize the diversity within the Unity of All Humanity.

Answer 9

Depends. If you consider that thought is nothing more than a spike of bioelectric form from one neuron to another, yes. Since electricity can be measured and stored. And going along that chain of thinking it would be assumed that thoughts would be comprised of matter. And matter is everywhere in the universe. But like i said it depends since it can't be proven I have a single clear thought in me brain.

Answer 10

Hi ..yes thoughts, exist..
In the mind and the brain, we constantly..thinking..
You have thought, about this question, as well.. so without thoughts, negative/positive ones..we should not be, complete:) ..

Kind regards!!:) ..

Answer 11

Thoughts occur