Posted: Mar 20, 2014 6:25 pm
It's hard for me figure out exactly what your asking for here but thoughts or perhaps you cognition in general can be studied in two broad categories in science, basically brain activity and behavior.
Specific thoughts at the brain level are very hard to study with any specificity at current time but neuroscientists have made strides in figuring out various parts of the brains that are responsible for thoughts. So to answer your question, thoughts are made up of brain activity in those areas of the brain that are linked with different types of thoughts. At the behavior level, thoughts are covert behaviors that function largely like many overt behaviors but are distinguished by their inaccessibility to others.
Both of the above are very broad ideas of what "thoughts" are from a scientific perspective but if you have any specifics beyond that, I can see if I can answer those.
Specific thoughts at the brain level are very hard to study with any specificity at current time but neuroscientists have made strides in figuring out various parts of the brains that are responsible for thoughts. So to answer your question, thoughts are made up of brain activity in those areas of the brain that are linked with different types of thoughts. At the behavior level, thoughts are covert behaviors that function largely like many overt behaviors but are distinguished by their inaccessibility to others.
Both of the above are very broad ideas of what "thoughts" are from a scientific perspective but if you have any specifics beyond that, I can see if I can answer those.