Are you capable of thought..........?

Question

ok, calm down, not you personally but, people in general, can someone prove to another that thay are capable of thought?
we can say we think, but we can't see, touch, smell, hear, or taste or thoughts. we can show them an electrical stimuli in our brain, but that electricity was not our thought.
finally we could say to someone i know i can think because i can hear my thoughts, but hearing is only done with the ears, what we just " heard " existed only in our minds. so how could anyone prove to another they have thoughts?

what is a thought made of?

Answer 1

good question....idea: the content of cognition; the main thing you are thinking about; "it was not a good idea"; "the thought never entered my mind"
thinking: the process of using your mind to consider something carefully; "thinking always made him frown"; "she paused for thought"
the organized beliefs of a period or group or individual; "19th century thought"; "Darwinian thought"
opinion: a personal belief or judgment that is not founded on proof or certainty; "my opinion differs from yours"; "what are your thoughts on Haiti?"
wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn

Thought or thinking is a mental process which allows beings to model the world, and so to deal with it effectively according to their goals, plans, ends and desires. Concepts akin to thought are sentience, consciousness, idea, and imagination.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thought

for Frege, a thought is the sense of a sentence which can be used to make an assertion or to ask a question that is answerable by either 'Yes' or 'No'. The contents of thoughts can be true or false. Thoughts in this sense are logical or conceptual rather than a matter of individual psychology. Different individuals may share the same thought, although they cannot share the same act of thinking.
www.filosofia.net/materiales/rec/glosaen.htm

In general, whatever arises in the dualistic mind.
www.bodhipath-west.org/glossary.htm

In The Secret Doctrine, used in senses quite different from the ordinary: abstract absolute thought, of which mind is a concrete manifestation, or of which voice or the Logos is a manifestation. Pymander is quoted as saying that passive or unconscious mind generates active idea -- and active idea here is the same as the activity of the Logos. Thought, impressed on the astral light, exists in eternity, whether active or passive.
www.theosociety.org/pasadena/etgloss/tho-tre.htm

[A69/B94] Kant speaks of the understanding both as a faculty of judgment and a faculty of thought. Here he defines thought as "knowledge by means of concepts", where concept is taken in an undetermined sense as "predicates of possible judgments". [A55/B79] Kant distinguishes pure and empirical thought about an object and first introduces transcendental logic as that logic "which should contain solely the rules of the pure thought of an object".
www.texttribe.com/text/kant_glossary.htm

A mechanical definition of thinkingness (think-think, figure-figure) would be: 1. That thought which occurs as an effort to sort, arrange, classify, identify, and differentiate ideas which the being has attached to small bits of mental mass. The key word here is "effort."
www.censorthis.com/ouran/definitions.html


well there you go...you can prove that you think because if you couldnt then we would all be retarded...no one would pass kindergarden...to prove that you can think have someone ask you a question...if you can answer it,whammo--there you go--you can think ,you have thought,because you answered there question,if you didnt have thought you would never have been able to answer it or any question.thats my guess anyways.

Answer 2

Solipsistic logic . . . you had to have a thought to formulate your question, did you not? What are thoughts made of? You answered that too . . . neurons firing in your brain. The brain is the most complex organ in the human body and you can fill a large bookshelf with studies that have been done on the brain, and that's just the biological studies. You'd have to fill another huge bookshelf with the psychological studies to date. So, I can't tell you what thought is "made of." It is intangible, but is the product of electrochemical reactions in your brain. Neurons that send electrochemical impulses and interconnect with other neurons and form a network remain interconnected. The more habitual thought patterns actually form grooves and folds in your brain, so that they become marked individuality traits. You know, like, oh, that's Fred, that's how he is. It is an amazing study but far beyond the scope of this forum.

Answer 3

Berkeley stated it thus, "I think therefore I am".
Maybe we exist, or maybe we don't. We could all be part of God's mind, but you personally are capable of rational thought and logic.
Thought may be chemical as well as spiritual. The brain is too complex for us at this point to be able to pinpoint thoughts, though certain feelings we can see.

Answer 4

The result of thought is action. Consider Solomon in his wisdom. When trying to discern who the real mother of the baby was, he said "cut the baby in half and give half to each professing mother". He knew (from his thought process) that the real mother would step forward to prevent the death of her infant. If this doesn't prove Solomon was capable of thought (and wisdom) then what does? Of course you cannot touch or smell thoughts, but you can certaining see and sometimes hear the result of thought.

Answer 5

It depends on who is doing the alleged 'thinking' what that thought will be 'made of'. For one of my flatmates, his thoughts consist almost entirely of righteous indignation. Another flatmate's alleged thoughts consist almost entirely of Captain Jack Morgan's Tattoo with a beer chaser. Yet another seems to only generate thoughts around feeding time. Such are the hazards of being the only female in a house full of rather base men, apparently.

I feel bad for them, though. My thoughts are made up almost exclusively of death metal, porn, coffee and chocolates. Introspection pops in there once in a while, but I banish it immediately.

~Morg~

Answer 6

You really needed to put this into philosophy and or psychology.

Thought is the processing of the brain.

Can we sense it directly from another, no. However we can sense it through non verbal communications and verbal communication. These are not a perfect way but it gives us enough

Answer 7

I think a thought is made of an idea and feelings sculpted into a piece of matter. We can't show someone our thoughts, except to share them with others.

Answer 8

you could't in spite of everything. you could't even tutor you have a techniques. case in point, we create AIs in video games that work together in a digital international. They function math issues solely and that simulate what we've faith to be genuine habit. they have no "techniques" in spite of the fact that the applications that compose them carry out math. they're "concept" could be an phantasm. you could desire to even software in indignity. we can't determine that we're not a element of a few comparable digital international with out extra substance than theirs. what's extra, we can't tutor we are no longer figments of somebody else's mind's eye the two. in spite of if our bodies and the international are genuine, it does not get us off the hook. All computers that simulate questioning accomplish that by in ordinary terms ones and zeros, the absence of adequate capability to create a circuit or the presence of the capability (subsequently the electrical powered energy test). Our brains function on an somewhat comparable concept. Our DNA is coded with 4 chemical ingredients in certainly one of those style that bond in only 2 tactics, making a trend of ones and zeros (like a working laptop or pc). each concept, each urge, each voice, might desire to be no longer something extra desirable than programming, whether imaginary, digital, fabric, or some thing else we can't conceive. we have no way, with reason, to tutor we've reason (to accomplish that could beg the question), and Descartes' answer stops quite wanting proving something. in my view, I used the Incarnation of Christ to calm the doubts, yet I had to proceed previous reason to do it.

Answer 9

It's curious how the most important things in life exist outside the understanding of popular science. Sentience, Love, God, etc.

Answer 10

It comes from the invisible spirit world and you can prove it by actions, by what you do, you can do nothing without the thought first, get Gods Holy spirit in you and live by his thoughts. here is how read this page;
http://www.freedomcame. /glory/ put com after freedomcame. and before /glory the system wont let me post the link normally