Questions that come up when you think about Thought
Can you define Thought in a single line? Anything done by the nervous system is thought. The above statement does answer a lot of questions but not all, like… What about organisms that don’t have a nervous system, do they not think? -No they don’t, because they cannot take input, process it, and give output. Do plants have thoughts? Despite not having a brain, they have a sort of nervous system -Yes they do. The brain is not necessary for a single thought to appear; a single cell that has the same or similar ability to the nerve cell can also generate thought. So are thoughts made of electricity? -Yes Can we combine thoughts back to make electricity out of it? -maybe, if we do the math, theoretically it may be possible, but I don’t think we have the required technology to prove this hypothesis. Do thoughts appear in living beings only? -no, if a non-living thing has something similar to the nervous system, then thoughts may appear in them too. For example, the AlphaGo comput...