How do thoughts occur




















We interpret our own mental states in much the same way as we interpret the minds of others, except that we can use as data in our own case our own visual imagery and inner speech. You call the process of how people learn their own thoughts interpretive sensory access, or ISA. Where does the interpretation come into play? But the interpretative work and inferences on which you base your understanding are not accessible to you. All the highly automatic, quick inferences that form the basis of your understanding of my words remain hidden.

You seem to just hear the meaning of what I say. What rises to the surface of your mind are the results of these mental processes. That is what I mean: The inferences themselves, the actual workings of our mind, remain unconscious.

All that we are aware of are their products. And my access to your mind, when I listen to you speak, is not different in any fundamental way from my access to my own mind when I am aware of my own inner speech. The same sorts of interpretive processes still have to take place. The assumption is a useful heuristic when interpreting the statements of others. If I also had to interpret whether he is interpreting his own mental state correctly, then that would make my task impossible.

It is far simpler to assume that he knows his own mind as, generally, he does. The illusion of immediacy has the advantage of enabling us to understand others with much greater speed and probably with little or no loss of reliability.

If I had to figure out to what extent others are reliable interpreters of themselves, then that would make things much more complicated and slow. It would take a great deal more energy and interpretive work to understand the intentions and mental states of others. And then it is the same heuristic transparency-of-mind assumption that makes my own thoughts seem transparently available to me.

There is a great deal of experimental evidence from normal subjects, especially of their readiness to falsely, but unknowingly, fabricate facts or memories to fill in for lost ones. Moreover, if introspection were fundamentally different from reading the minds of others, one would expect there to be disorders in which only one capacity was damaged but not the other.

Autism spectrum disorders, for example, are not only associated with limited access to the thoughts of others but also with a restricted understanding of oneself. There seems to be only a single mind-reading mechanism on which we depend both internally and in our social relations. The price we pay is that we believe subjectively that we are possessed of far greater certainty about our attitudes than we actually have.

We believe that if we are in mental state X, it is the same as being in that state. As soon as I believe I am hungry, I am. Once I believe I am happy, I am.

But that is not really the case. It is a trick of the mind that makes us equate the act of thinking one has a thought with the thought itself. What might be the alternative? What should we do about it , if only we could? Well, in theory, we would have to distinguish between an experiential state itself on the one hand and our judgment or belief underlying this experience on the other hand.

There are rare instances when we succeed in doing so: for example, when I feel nervous or irritated but suddenly realize that I am actually hungry and need to eat. That would be one way of saying it. A better understanding of where and how different types of thoughts arise in the brain—such as facial recognition, emotion, or language—may help researchers develop treatments for disorders such as autism or dyslexia.

But reaching that goal? Working with Brain and Cognitive Sciences professor Nancy Kanwisher, Fedorenko is working to develop better tools for dissecting recordings of thoughts. Their recent work reveals a clearer picture of where the brain processes language, one of the defining activities that makes us human.

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How are thoughts measured? It all begins with your thoughts—our life experiences spring from the thoughts we actively engage in: You are what you think.

And to comprehend the essence of this statement, you first need to understand the link between your thoughts, emotions, and behavior. And when we engage with specific thoughts, we begin to feel the emotions that were triggered by these thoughts—we enter a new emotional state which then influences how we act.

How does your body react to this? You sulk down, slump your shoulders, and project no confidence. But if you engage with more empowering thoughts, they would boost your confidence and thus trigger a more positive emotional state which will then be reflected in how your body reacts: standing up straight, upbeat and energized. Everything begins with the thoughts you pay attention to. Thoughts trigger emotions, and the vibrational frequency of these emotions then feed back into the original thought.

And as we continue to give mental attention to the initial though, it reaffirms the emotion, which then energizes the thought. And so we experience a continuous cycle of think, feel, think, feel, think, feel.

This results in the emotional state you come to experience: stressed, depressed, discouraged, happy, energized, confident, etc…. How you think and how you feel directly impact how your body reacts, and all three influence how you behave and what actions you take.

This is how your thoughts create your reality. Emotions are the reactions to the thoughts you give attention to. This means that all the problems we experience are nothing more than a thinking problem. You disliking your job and blaming your career choices for it is not the problem, the way you think about it is the problem. Our problems are nothing more than our emotional and body reactions to our thoughts about the problem.

So if we can observe and change our attention or perception, we can change our emotional reaction, which then changes our body reaction, which ultimately changes how we act and experience our reality. This is called a though pattern and it has the power to destroy your life.

Repetition rewires the brain and breeds habits. The more the neurons fire together, the more likely it is that they will fire together in the future. Every thought we experience creates a chemical reaction in the brain which then triggers an emotion. As we engage with this thought, it creates a new circuit that sends a signal to the body and we react a certain way.

The more we repeat this pattern, the more it seeps into our mind and becomes a habit. As you keep thinking the same thoughts, producing the same emotions and performing the same actions, you continue to live by the same experiences. As we repeatedly engage in the same thought patterns of think, feel, do, these patterns encode as a blueprint in our subconscious mind. And what does our subconscious mind do?

As Dr. Bruce Lipton explains :.



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