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both.

2007-02-17 09:07:50 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1 0

Thoughts arise due to causes and conditions, so usually they're a product of past karma and external stimuli. When one learns to train their mind to be calm and not have aversions or grasping and attachments, then external stimuli don't affect the mind as much and the mind remains more calm. So it's a product of BOTH.

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2007-02-17 17:19:44 · answer #2 · answered by vinslave 7 · 0 0

Stimuli both internally and externally generated, see the problem of determinism.

But no no ghost in the machine.

2007-02-17 17:07:20 · answer #3 · answered by fourmorebeers 6 · 0 0

They are self generated but often prompted by external stimuli - the two aren't mutually exclusive.

In what sense is this a religious question?

2007-02-17 17:07:41 · answer #4 · answered by Goodly Devil 2 · 1 0

All our thoughts occur within or brain. But the brain has evolved to respond to the sensory input we get from external stimuli. Or did you mean some kind of supernatural stimuli?

2007-02-17 17:11:28 · answer #5 · answered by Jim L 5 · 1 0

self generated and influenced by external stimuli.

-For example I could be stung by a bee and think about the pain (external stimuli), but then my stream of consciousness could lead me to remember some point in my history where I felt a similar pain (self-generated).

2007-02-17 17:07:23 · answer #6 · answered by ? 6 · 0 0

I think they are both self generated and spawned from external stimuli.

2007-02-17 17:10:42 · answer #7 · answered by Joseph 6 · 1 0

i think initially they may start out from an external stimuli, but then they are generated from within. Like, you may think of one thing caused from something you see or hear, then the next thing you know that spurs other thoughts from within.

2007-02-17 17:09:15 · answer #8 · answered by animal_mother 4 · 1 0

There was a very strange experimental result recently. Researchers found that the signal in the brain for taking an action came just before the signal in the brain for deciding to take the action.

For example, the signal for telling the arm to move came just before the signal that brain had decided to move the arm.

2007-02-17 17:08:43 · answer #9 · answered by FCabanski 5 · 0 0

They come from a mysterious substance called golly whimsy. The same thing that tells a bug which way to turn if you put it in the middle of a huge floor.
It's all related to random processes and the purpose of filling time, and if there were a god he would be in the same predicament.

2007-02-17 17:15:35 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

Our thoughts (and ideas) are electromagnetic realities...See "The Nature of Personal Reality" By Jane Roberts (A Seth Book.)

2007-02-17 18:40:12 · answer #11 · answered by Sky in the Grass 5 · 0 0

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