If a thought is the motion of atoms in my head, how can thoughts describe what is the case about atoms?

Question

Mo, at least, understands the question. You forget what synapses and neurons are made of. In the last analysis the physicist looks at your biological and chemical reduction of a thought and tells me the reduction can continue down to the quantum level where even atoms are left behind as a construct. My question begins at this very point. A human thought has reduced all thoughts to being as so many movements in the quantum cloud. What is left to urge me to accept this as a reasonable account of the way the world is?

Well, I thought this was worth some consideration, but I accept the limitations of the media.

Answer 1

Thought is more along the lines of moving electrical charges (as Mo correctly points out)
But the question is a very good one. How can anything contemplate its own existence? And the answer is that it probably cannot. Refer to Special Relativity for a short proof of why you can never know everything about a system as long as you, yourself, are a part -of- that system.
OTOH........ We -can- know a very great deal of useful information about this system in which we find ourselves. But we always need to be asking, "Do we really know this?" and "Can it be proven in some meaningful way?"

Doug

Answer 2

Thoughts have nothing to do with atoms.

Neurons are the electrical spark that open and shut synapse, as in the same with transistor in a computer, except ours (the brain) is biological.

The neurons once excited travel at speeds of 250 miles per second along pathway called dendrites.

It is very complex and very simple

Answer 3

I think you are basically asking how man can know man, or how can the brain understand the brain?

No one has ever fully explained the mystery of the Human brain. They say we only use 10% of it.
What is the other 90% for?
The other 90% is for figuring itself out.
This means it probably takes much more energy and brain function to figure out its own origons than it does to do everything else the brain does.
Einstein figured out the universe in his mind.

You know what really blows me away is when I see what is supposed to be a dead brain in a movie or on TV.
It was alive and vital and powerful and now its just so much meat!
Weird!
Where did the energy and light go?
I don't think the life went anywhere when the brain died. I think Life exists on a higher plane than this physical realm.
It is the same before, during and after physical life~

Answer 4

see a thought as equal to atom,atom..u can self think about it,
main power of thought above to a atom ....
kewal...

Answer 5

the Prodigy cracks me up.

Answer 6

your on crack. either that, or rephrase...