How would thought evolve with nothing to think about?
2007-01-18 02:54:49 · 3 answers · asked by rebelhell71 1 in Social Science ➔ Psychology
If you don't count genetic memory as a past sensory input then it can be the answer, otherwise...
A thought is a mix of memory and imagination. For example you have an idea of writing a sci-fi book. What you need is a knowledge base and imagination (still based on knowledge). Quite simple. Here's another example: hallucination. A pink elephant. You have a memorised image of an elephant and imagination to make it pink. We still have a memory base here.
I don't think you can draw something that can't be compared with something you have already seen/heard/felt.
There are also legends about people that started speaking languages they never knew before, but... there's no scientific evidence of that.
Seems that the mind is not capable of such thoughts.
2007-01-18 04:54:05 · answer #1 · answered by alexus_mad 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The mind is powerful in terms of the thougt process. Even without history of past and present occurances to think about the mind is still working overdrive to understand it's present state. Although our minds are capable of wandering into the past or present it is the current state that makes it run overdrive always evolving and understanding because everything we do even blinking is embedded in our mind as soon as we do it.
2007-01-18 11:01:34 · answer #2 · answered by Alchemist 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That's an interesting question,one to provoke thought. How about this? Where do our thoughts come? From our five senses only?
2007-01-18 11:14:44 · answer #3 · answered by windwalker 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋