Inside your brain does thought have asubstance?
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( scientifically speaking )\n\nour current understanding of the brain suggests that it is essentially a process of CHEMICAL and ELECTRICAL reactions. \n\nif thought is to be anything REAL ( and not metaphysical ) , then it MUST have basis in these chemical and electrical reactions.\n\nthe existence of LONG TERM memory is a well documented phenomena in human beings ( and many animals ).\n\nLong term memory must be "stored" intact for it to be retrieved quickly.  Storage means that the information must be present in an organized pattern in an electric or chemical medium.\n\nthere is no scientific evidence that the brain stores "charge" or electricity in an organized way to encode information ( i.e. it is not a capacitor ).\n\nit does however contain chemicals ( i.e. proteins ) and molecules that can be theoretically be altered and manipulated to encode information.\n\ncurrent speculation is that thoughts have a physical basis in the chemical structure of the brain.\n\nto answer your question, \n\nYES, thoughts DO have a SUBSTANCE .
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Although sometimes we think in words and sounds, research in cognitive science has shown that this modality is not as fundamental as it was considered in the past. The language is a product of the mind, not vice-versa. Thinking without formulating words is completely possible.
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it's really a deep question and a good 1 too....you can control your brain according to your: behaviors,thoughts,beliefs but the most important thing is your HEART..your brain is really connected to your heart in some way, this connection is really very strong, do you know why?because all of our thoughts or behaviors could be sharing with other people(we could have the same beliefs that others have),but your heart is your own, nobody can know what is in your heart and nobody can change it too,so i am telling you that the right way to control your brain is by listening to your heart, your heart tells you what to do,it is your own and nobody can share it with you..always hear what your heart says and you would never feel sorry for that,trust me, your heart knows you like nobody does so it guides you to do the right thing always.....always....\ni hope it helped you..God bless you..
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A reasonable answer could be given if you believe in soul concept.\n \nI think Mind indeed is a separate entity but in spiritual realm. In physical realm....Mind and our body functions are interrelated. Thoughts arise in Mind, then we weigh the thoughts(good vs. bad) and then we do the action(either physical or mental). Ofcourse all these things happen very fast.\n\nI dont think thoughts arise only from what we see. What about dreams that we get. Sometimes the dreams are so wierd that its unlike anything we have clearly seen and remembered. Ofcoruse it the characters in the dream might be familiar but the story or incident that we get in dreams are some times so wierd that it did not happen but its very well orchestrated. I think Mind can manifest its own story sometimes without us seeing or hearing at that moment.
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Thoughts become things
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The human mind is associated with the brain.  The brain tends to use neurons which have previously been used over those which have never been used.  Background assumptions, beliefs, paradigms all tend to prevent new associations with old concepts.
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There are many things that we do that do not require our conscious brain.  Whatever things you are talking about, perhaps the subconscious got started on it before the consciousness got involved.  When cockroaches feel stimulus on their back legs, they begin running before their conscious mind knows why they are running.  It's just like the other poster said, the impulse telling your hand to pull oout of a fire doesn't require your conscious mind to make a decision, it starts the process for you.\n\nIt's an interesting idea that this might have to do with quantum wierdness, but I think experiments woudl reject that.  I encourage you to keep thinking of things like this and hypothesizing.  Eventually you may be teaching us instead of the other way around :-)
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Something is missing. Your brain maybe?
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It is the seat of the intellect, not an intellectual organ.  All cognition (thought, logic, creativity, etc) is initiated in the brain.
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Thought can be seen as the emanation of mind.  Mind is all (everything) there is.  Mind can be seen as the activating agent of Spirit (God), as your index finger can be seen as the activating agent of your hand.  Thought is more than we have understood.  Thought forms your reality as you know it, based on your beliefs, emotions, and expectations.
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Yes. Think of when you dream. Your thoughts do not stop when you're dreaming; they just take on a different form. The left hemisphere thinks in words, the right hemisphere (the dreaming spiritual side of you) thinks in images and that's what you experience in your sleep. When you are in the dream, especially in lucid dreams...your thoughts manifest. In out of body experiences, just thinking of a place takes you there. But on a simpler note, when you are thinking about what you 'should' have said to the person that hurt you and you're consumed with that thought, pay attention, and you will find that your mind is giving you the opportunity to relive the incident in your mind to set it right...it is not there to fuel your anger and your consumption, but to give you the opportunity to 'vent' that. In other words, your mind / self FEEDS (follows) your thoughts and manifests them to satisfy them (to make them happen)...it's automatic...we just are not usually aware of that cuz our emotions cloud our perception of what our thoughts created inside our minds. Now if you want to take that 'thought' further, relax and give form to your thoughts 'visualize' the end result of what you want and it will manifest as quickly as your BELIEF allows it to. Remember, causality is not what we 'perceive' in the material world. Past, present and future are all happening at once and the effect precedes the cause and that's why visualization works. Good luck :)
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Have you not hear people asking HAVE YOU LOST YOUR BRAIN MIND YOUR OWN BUSINESS \nSO YOU SEE THE DIFFERENCE\nPEOPLE WHO LOSE CONSCIOUSNESS HAVE BRAIN BUT THEIR MIND STOPPED WORKING.\nBRAIN IS LOCATED IN HEAD BUT MIND IS REALATED TO HEART TOO
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Self awareness is dependent mostly on your frontal lobe, and your sense processing regions.  \n\nNo-one understands qualia, but we do know where it comes from based on brain injuries and defects.
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Actually, linguists postulate that we think in a kind of 'thought-language' that can process several concepts simultaneously. The question of whether that 'thought-language' is innate, and international, is one of the biggest in modern theoretical linguistics. So is just what that 'thought-language' is and how it works.\n\nFor myself, when I'm thinking quickly, I presume that I'm using that language but also 'translating' it to English. When I speak a second language, though, I find that I am capable of 'thinking in that language' - which probably means I'm translating directly from 'thought-language' to the second language. As I speak more than one language in my day-to-day life, I'll find that I have dreams wherein a conversation is held. I'll remember everything about the topic of conversation, but I can't quite recall what language we were speaking!
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The short answer to this is, no.  \n\nAnything which interacts with the chemicals (from caffine to THC and on) affects the reactions in the brain.  It isn't that you couldn't have had those thoughts without the substance, but for whatever reason you may add extra significance to them.
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I think that both "minds" are extremely powerful however humans have yet to harness this strength.\n\nI think that that subconsiuous mind is excellant at recalling any memory, as it is very "discliplined" in this manner. However i think that the consious mind is great at problem solving at thinking "on the spot". So really, there are advantages and disadvantages to both "minds" and for this reason, there is no answer.\n\nYou could get urself an answer if u were to say "Is the subconcious mind more efficent at storing memories?"
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The answer to your question is No! Because although we feel that when making a decision and ther are no physical constrainsts, it is easy to believe that we could have choosen otherwise. This is just an illusion as there are usually subconcious reasonings why you made that decision but of them we are rarely aware.\n\n"The vast majority of all the processing our brain does is subconscious; we ultimately have no idea why we prefer particular actions over others. We are, I believe, observers. We become aware of what our brains are thinking but don't have any free will. In other words, our consciousness is not a vessel of free will. but an attention-processing side-affect of the complexity of our brains. Free will itself is an illusion, although consciousness is obviously real we merely become conscious of our chosen actions. There is no philosophical free will."