What does the one word - Think - mean?

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19 Aug 2010, 11:07 am

How do you define the one word - Think?

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19 Aug 2010, 11:43 am

To consider, deliberate, ponder any subject/matter out of interest or obsession.

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19 Aug 2010, 12:33 pm

Thinking, to me, is an actual activity, something I do separately from other activities. If I am really thinking, I'm probably not doing something else that requires much mental input. It often involves words and dialogue in my head.

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19 Aug 2010, 1:43 pm

It's another way for people to tell me, to use my head.

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19 Aug 2010, 2:49 pm

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19 Aug 2010, 3:08 pm

Consciously putting mental objects together to make coherent expressions?

Well that sucks.

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19 Aug 2010, 3:30 pm

I don't understand the question. Is there anyone who doesn't know what thinking is?

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19 Aug 2010, 4:16 pm

Moog wrote:

Consciously putting mental objects together to make coherent expressions?...

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As in being a builder:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erector_Set
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_the_Builder
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Architect
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real_estate_development

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19 Aug 2010, 4:30 pm

I don't know . . . because I've never experienced not thinking, whether my thinking takes the form of dreaming, daydreaming, trying to solve a specific problem, or processing words that I might be reading at the time, or other objects I can see around me.

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19 Aug 2010, 4:37 pm

pgd wrote:

Moog wrote:

Consciously putting mental objects together to make coherent expressions?...

Yes, just like Bob. Can we fix it? Yes we can!

Do you not like my definition?

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19 Aug 2010, 5:20 pm

Moog wrote:

pgd wrote:

Moog wrote:

Consciously putting mental objects together to make coherent expressions?...

Yes, just like Bob. Can we fix it? Yes we can!

Do you not like my definition?

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Your definition was fine. Oops...guess what? I was not wearing my eyeglasses and misread mental as metal, therefore the reference to the erector set. Sorry. Part of this mental construction in the brain/mind relates to visualization in the head which sometimes can be affected by subtle brain injuries, for example:

http://hollyhockfarms.com/dreamdolls/he ... story.html
http://hollyhockfarms.com/dreamdolls/he ... tory2.html

(Doll artist is not me; doll artist is someone else)

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mental_rotation

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Mental objects

Physical object mentally rotated:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubik's_Cube

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Some persons can see objects in their heads easily; others can't. This general concept relates to aspects of thinking/what can be meant by the word think (my view).

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19 Aug 2010, 5:32 pm

Poppycocteau wrote:

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Good.

There are many persons in the world who experience episodes of non-thinking at times, for example, the many epilepsies such as petit mal/absence/complex partial/TLE and so on. Thinking is not a continuous process for everyone.

http://www.epilepsy.org.uk/info/seizures/absence.html

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The inattention associated with ADHD - especially ADHD Inattentive - factors into what is meant by the word - Think - for those with ADHD.

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19 Aug 2010, 7:36 pm

To consider, examine or analyze.

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19 Aug 2010, 10:36 pm

think

act of producing thought

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20 Aug 2010, 2:21 am

Poppycocteau wrote:

With good reason. Without thought, there is no experience. There can be experience without self-awareness, but not without thought--even if that thought is only the intake of raw sensory data.

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20 Aug 2010, 4:07 am

Is taking in data 'thinking'? I would call that sensing. Is sensing thinking? A plant senses the sun and reacts accordingly, but has no brain that we recognise.

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