Tuesday, August 10, 2010

How We Think

When we learn the vocabulary or lexicon of a specialty or life style then we think with the words and patterns of that lexicon and life style.

If we learn an eccentric lexicon then we think with an eccentric pattern-lexicon way of thinking. If we learn a traditional lexicon then we think in a traditional-pattern of thinking.

What happens with thinking earlier in the brain, in the neurons etc, is of course related to thinking and to what we inherit as our human nature, but this happens before the established language which leads to thinking.

But before we think we first see an object with our senses, and then our minds, consciousness, and language build attributes and definitions regarding the objects from there.

Problems can come, philosophically and psychologically, when our minds begin to create ideas, definitions, that do not exist as objects.

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