Cognitive Thrift 62 – Thought
Author(s): Scott Douglas Jacobsen and Rick Rosner
Publication (Outlet/Website): Cognitive Thrift
Publication Date (yyyy/mm/dd): 2018/03/15
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Scott Douglas Jacobsen: Maybe, we should define thought. What is thought? What defines thought?
Rick Rosner: Okay, so, there – off the top of my head, there are a couple different kinds of thought: thought and pre- or sub-conscious. Thought that you are aware of because it is part of your consciousness to the extent that you are paying attention at all, and thought that is still kind of taking place in your nervous system, in your brain, and down your spinal column, but is still pretty automatic. Reflexes, walking, breathing, wincing when somebody you hate, your hated political candidate comes on the TV.
So, and in a more general sense, thinking is information processing done by your nervous system above a certain level of complexity, and you’re free to – if you play your hand back from a hot … that reflex action is generally, it is nervous action that is more complicated than that. Although, I’m sure nervous reactions are more complicated than that.
If you want to get really tautological, it’s what your brain does with information.
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