Where Do Thoughts Come From?
I wonder where thoughts arise from. Is it my mind or my brain? It is a dumb question in all honesty. The brain is where we store information. The mind is probably where ideas originate. It cannot be that simple though. Think about it for a moment. Try holding on to a single thought. Just one. Watch it carefully. Within seconds something else appears. A memory. A worry. A random image from twenty years ago. A song lyric. An unfinished task. The original thought gets pushed aside and before long you have wandered somewhere entirely different. If thoughts were consciously created, surely we would have more control over them. Yet most of the time they simply arrive. The strange thing is that I do not remember creating the majority of my thoughts. I become aware of them. There is a difference. If I ask you what you will think about next, you cannot answer. Yet a moment later there it is. A thought. Complete. Delivered. As if some unseen machinery has been operating in the background the ent...