do you LEARN to think or are you born as a thinking being???

Question

for example do babies actualy have formulated thoughts and an inner thought language or not? i think that they can only perceive react and just BE. am i correct?

after all you cant formulate and create any real thought patterns untill you learn about your reality and as you grow older the brain matures enough to make predictions and ideas based on your reality. what do you think??

Answer 1

Real thought - bodily functions are real thoughts, and survival instincts are there as well. learning and understanding there new world. all real thoughts some hard to understand.
And can be overwhelming.

Communication on there level is different to our own.
If time was spent understanding there language i wonder what conversations could be taking place.

Just a thought.. or maybe a pretty pattern.

Answer 2

I think babies have enough experience to have thoughts by the time they are born. They go on reflex and instinct a lot too and thought processes are primitive. As they grow these skills are increased & refined.

I've often wished I could try to think w/o words like a baby. Very psycadelic I imagine. colors/sounds/patterns/desires

a bit off subject... I was wondering at the at the thinking skills of other creatures today. Which ones think? Small photosynthetic one celled critters with one desire "go to the light" or is there more.
I saw a study where some bacteria had a form of communication to share info that was important to survival of teh colony. I do think this is an unconsious activity for survival, but where does thinking begin?

Answer 3

We are born as thinking beings. As we grow, as our brains develop, we learn how to organize, interpret, and express our thoughts.

Babies have no formal language. This is one of the reasons we can't remember much, if anything, before we develop a strong enough ability to communicate through language. We have learned to organize and interpret most of our thoughts through the symbols of words. Before that we can only use more abstract concepts like images, scent, feeling, etc...

The ability to perceive is a form of cognition, or thought. Perception is taking what one experiences and giving it some sort of meaning, even without words. A wet diaper can be a cause for an infant to cry. It's not harming the child and the child's reaction is not best accounted for in terms of instinct alone. It requires the child to recognize that it is a state different from that which he or she considers comfortable. Very quickly, even, the child learns that when he or she is uncomfortable crying will lead to a change in that situation. Crying is the first way we learn to communicate and that certainly takes thought.

Furthermore, as we grow and our brains develop our ability to think increases. It's a natural process and would happen without any outside stimulation. More stimulation helps the brain to develop more pathways, like exercise and muscles, kind of. This is "learning." Thinking is required to in order to be able to learn and learning helps to increase ones ability to think.

Answer 4

From birth we contemplate, this is how we are able to learn. The formation of patterned thinking is actually a dilution of the time, and ability to contemplate and learn. The very notion that thinking correlates to words is use is often backwards. Word development, using them in context, requires an understanding of the matrix of context without the words first, or else the proper use could never be understood, or, consequently, used.

The thinking which takes place without words is a definite understanding of how the world is working, according to what stimuli is available to conclude the circuit processing of perception, and thought.

I have very clear memories of the times when I was too young to speak in words, what I was thinking, and much brighter, and clear in its intent the world was. What was lacking was an ability to relate to the habitual, and learned behaviors, and knowledge of others.

The only way to have the best of both worlds is to lose all assumptions, and unconscious or partly conscious habits, while still having the concrete experience to maintain the knowledge of value. That one knowledge is a comprehensive world view which ever develops, and is not divided, while all thoughtless actions are divisive, and allow things to be enacted contrary to preexisting wisdom.

Children simply lack much, if any, preexisting wisdom, so act out of ignorance, always learning rapidly with contemplation about, and from, their environmental factors. Not every child is equal in contemplative faculties, but they all learn, generally faster than when they are adults, who act habitually instead of contemplatively.

Answer 5

Actually babies are thinking, manipulative and curious ( asign of intelligence) beings.
You see when a child drops a cup on to the ground, and awaits for there mother to pick it up, they are not only testing and discovering gravity they are also testing and gaining an understanding of the way humans work. Amazing isnt it...Babies thinking about gravity.

Answer 6

The first thing that happens when your born, you see. And even as a baby you are learning who takes care of you, feeds you, who changes you diapers. Babies usually smile at their parents way before they'll smile at a stranger, meaning the child learns protection and comfort from the parents. Do you get my meaning?

Answer 7

Have you ever looked into a new born baby's eyes? Or a baby of a month or two old? I swear we are born with the inner knowledge of the universe and we only get dumber as we get older....

Answer 8

Even in the womb a baby's brain is active. Something is going on in their brain when they're kicking, I'm sure they are thinking and in their own little world.

Answer 9

of course have you ever seen twins in the womb you can clearly see them playing also you don't develop a soul you are born with one

Answer 10

we're all born as a thinking being..as we grow older..our brain also does.