P.1) Thought constitutes the
processing of the collection nimbus acquired as
knowledge in the brain if the form
of memory. This knowledge may
be acquired by sentient observation or by
transfer of knowledge through the use of language.
Consciousness of thought is not
essential for its conduct and, indeed, most thought occurs
without it.
(P.2) All or part of the knowledge may be
false knowledge as a result of errant observations of actions,
inaccurate understanding of the meaning of words used in the language,
or inaccurate manipulation of nimbus in
prior thoughts and subsequently stored in memory as
knowledge.
(P.3) The accurate p[processing of knowledge
that is not false knowledge resulting from thought and
stored as memory we shall call true thought. Rejection
of false knowledge by logical though is
also a true thought. As an example, a thought that,
based on knowledge by observation the earth
exists in the geometrical shape of a sphere is a true thought while
the thought that the earth exists as flat plane based on false
knowledge is not a true thought. But the thought that
the earth exists as flat plane is false knowledge is a true
thought. No true thoughts of false
knowledge are possible false thoughts may
be retained in memory of the brain as
false knowledge in thoughts in time
future. False thoughts are all too common.
(P.3.1) The thought process
uses knowledge to produce postulations of what was or was not time
past, is or is not in time present, and what might be or
might not be in time future. When the postulations are proven to
be logically true we shall call them true
and are retained knowledge. When the postulations are proven to be not logically
true we shall call them false and are retained
as false knowledge. Retention of false knowledge as
a true is a myth. A postulation neither proven nor
disproven by logic is neither true nor false and,
until logically proven or disproven, we shall call a theory.
(P.3.1.1) This philosophy
postulates no such incorporeal entity exists separate from
our corporeal entity but that the totality of the entity
we materially experience is in and of itself an
incorporeal entity we call Ultimate Supreme Being.
That is, the Ultimate Supreme Being does not exist
separately and apart from our material existence. But,
because its incorporeal existence cannot be proven by logic is
remains an unproven or disproven theory. Beyond being a unfounded
belief in this theory, no other aspect of this
philosophy depends upon Ultimate Supreme Being to be truth.
We leave it to others to logically prove this belief to
be true or false. The existence
of existence is a circular argument, not unlike one
watching themselves watching themselves.
(P.4) Truth will persist in all actions.
No action can result in a false truth. The laws
of nature are inviolate. ©
(P.5) False knowledge cannot yield truths.
(P.6) All myths are false
truths.
(P.7) Thought is a physical electrochemical process
in the brain that uses existing knowledge to create new knowledge and
may or may not result in the creation of physical memory in
the brain. The new knowledge created by thought may or may not be
false knowledge. False perception, for
example, results in errors in thought and
subsequently production of false knowledge. The brain expends a
great deal of effort in conducting thought to sort out knowledge from
false knowledge in search of truth. In
the process it sorts out and discards superfluous knowledge.
Indeed it does so with about 90% of all knowledge acquired
by the brain in thought.
(P.8) Thought is not rote memory. As an
example, no thought is required to extract the answer
to the mathematical product of the number 2 times the number 7 as 14 from the
multiplication table stored in memory. Indeed, if you do not have
the multiplication table stored in memory you cannot and
will not be able to answer the question all. The answer of the number 14 is
obtained without any thought whatsoever. Indeed, those who learned the
multiplication table by rote memorizing in one language but now speak a different
language will always recall the answer to 2 time 4 in the language it was
learned and translate the answer into the different language now being used.
Likewise, no thought is required to recall
any qualia from memory. Qualia is
learned from
experience as the brain processes the sensory
inputs to produce the qualia. The qualia of
the sensation of pain is learned entirely from experience.
But the experience of the sensation most
perceive as pain may be experienced by others as the
sensation of pleasure. We do not use thought to decided
whether the experience is pleasurable or painful.
Further, we do not use thought to valuate
qualia. We develop valuate qualia by experience
or learning. The baby cries without thought as
a result of experiencing the qualia of pain.
But we learn by the experence of being taught that the action
of killing our fellow humans is associated with a qualia having
a valuation of wrongness which the brain uses
in moderating future actions as morals. But the valuation of
the experience of killing our fellow man can also have the valuation
of the experience as having the qualia of rightness.
As an example, those not taught the wrongness of murder by
their parents are more likely to commit murder. Further, the rightness of
killing others may be held in fulfillment of the biological
imperatives of "living to reproduce and reproducing to live"
in the actions of self defense of the individual and defense
of both the nuclear family unit and greater society in war.
So it is that morals are not the product of thought
but rather they are the application of the valuation of qualia
by the brain to human actions. And it
is by the process of biological determinism that they are applied
without thought or consciousness of thought. We only
become conscious of the valuation of the
qualia after it has already been made by processes of the physical
brain in accordance with the laws of nature.
Thought may be required to recall
an apple and the perception of its color but not the qualia of
color it possessed when observed in time past. but it cannot
be used to describe any qualia, including the
perception of the apple having a qualia of
color when, in fact, the qualia of color exists on in our
mind. Qualia is not thing that can be kept in a
bottle but rather is a phenomena of the mind
produced in our material brain itself which can be kept
in a bottle.
(P.9) Scientists have now followed the thought process
throughout the brain. Not surprisingly it operates primarily in
the evolutionary newest prefrontal cortex of the brain and
interacts with the evolutionary older portions of the cerebrum of the brain
involved with visual, auditory, somatosensory, gustatory and olfactory sensory
data as well as unconsciously implicit (how to ride a bicycle) and
consciously explicit (take the garbage out to the street on Tuesdays) memory formation.
The thought process does not occur instantaneous and requires
finite amounts of time for transmission of data used in the
process for the thought processor" in the prefrontal cortex to
process the data and prompt actions. Further, when
a thought task gets progressively complex, more activity in
the brain, and the prefrontal cortex in particular, occurs
requiring more time to process the task. And, interestingly, the thought process
can progress directly from sensory data without having gone
through memory or using any pertinent memory data in
the process. Who has not had the negative emotional response
of remorse with the thought that
I should have thought through that more clearly before I
(performed some action) after having reacted quickly
to some event?
(P.10) Thought is all about the
electrochemical machinery of the brain.
(P.11) It can be said that thought is the
glue of cognition.
Thought is phenomenon of mental processes in the brain using information acquired from the outside world to result in biological actions of living things. Thought need not produce consciousness nor is thought necessary for all biological action. Rather thought results from mental processes in the new parts of the brain more recently evolved and functions in addition to biological actions prompted by sensations of emotions generated in the older, more primitive parts of the brain. Unlike emotions, thought enables logical reasoning using knowledge to prompt biological actions, resulting in conflicts between emotions and reasoning in decision making.