What exactly is a thought?
As per my understanding, I live in two worlds, one is physical and another is psychological. The physical world is creating my psychological world and may be vice versa. In the physical world science has progressed like anything, but in the psychological world, we have not advanced much.
Thought is the basic unit of my psychological world, as an atom is the basic unit of the physical world. Even a dream is not possible without thought. It is the thought that creates me, others, all the characters, and the events in the dream. All the feelings and emotions are nothing but condensed impressions or thoughts.
Mind is the memory and the sea of accumulation of all the information in DNA, impressions, images, and their interpretations collected through senses, since birth. I am nothing but the product of this collected data. In this sea of images, impressions, information, waves of different intensities keep on rising and falling and some are hitting the shore. The waves hitting the shore are the thought one by one. The duration of one complete thought is around 1.19 sec.
Nothing can exist without space, whether it is the physical world or the psychological world. So, the phenomenon of thinking (firing of neurons in brain cells), evolved in homo sapiens, creates the thinker(subject), the thought(object), and the psychological space between the thinker and thought. Along with psychological space, time is also created simultaneously for the movement of thought. I am this(present), I was this(past), and I will be that(future). Thought is an interpretation of an image or impression in the brain cells. When thought interprets an image, it creates another image, which we call imagination.
So, without understanding thought, nature, movement, and contents, one cannot understand the psychological world.
The contents observed in thought are intent, information, and need, just like an atom's electrons, protons, and neutrons.
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