Posted: Mar 24, 2014 5:36 pm
reno88 wrote: 1: what are thoughts made of ?2: is it an energy as they say in spiritual science and chakra systems ?3:where does it come from and how does it form in the brain ?4: does it get stored in the brain or does it get released?5: if it get released from the body then how ?6: there is homoestasis in everything in biology then how does this apply to thoughts ?
According to simulation theory (see http://www.hesslow.com/GHNew/neuroscien ... w%20OP.pdf , http://lup.lub.lu.se/luur/download?func ... Id=2255705 ), thoughts are covert simulations of perception and action, they are not "energy", they come from perception and action, they don't get "stored" (but there are neural changes that alter their probability of occurrence). Regarding the issue of homeostasis, cognitive dissonance theory (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_dissonance) proposes that humans strive for internal consistency between beliefs, but this search of consistency is restricted by many limitations of our cognitive abilities (e.g., see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bounded_rationality , http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_bias , http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arbitrary_inference , http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Cognitive_biases , http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cognitive_biases , https://sites.google.com/site/maartenbo ... convenient , http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heuristics ... ion-making )
reno88 wrote: This subject is new to me and i couldnt get final answers from spiritual science and philosophies so i hope i can find it in scientific point of view ?
I don't think you'll find "final answers" in science. The goal of science is not finding "final answers". In science you'll find a set of observations and a set of models for those observations. Both sets are open to further changes, so they're not "final answers".
Imza wrote: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.
I think there are other categories within which "thoughts" can be studied (without denying the categories that you've proposed so far). Sociology, anthropology and history can study "thoughts" as cultural products that can be transmitted from one person to another through direct and indirect means. Philosophy and logic can study "thoughts" as propositions and constructs, abstracted from their behavioral and neural instantiations.