Advance us

Thought generation is a very tricky subject.  Cognitive scientists and psychologists know a lot about thinking after the fact.  Medical doctors and anatomical researchers know a lot about the electrical stimuli that happens in the brain and how the brain looks.  But thought generation is a secret yet to be unlocked.

To be sure, cognitive scientists and doctors know how the brain makes connections and associations between thoughts.  It's the generation of thought in the first place that escapes description.  Vygotsky in the 1920s was one of the first to try to formulate theories about the subject.  His theories are a bit like reading a very circular argument using his own set of defined terms as of how thought occurs.  Many others have tried since that time rather unsuccessfully.

If a person has a new thought, what exactly happens?  If we knew, we could unlock the secrets of the universe.  We wouldn't have to wait on the Isaac Newtons of life to happen along some decade.  If we knew, we wouldn't have to honor those Edisons and Teslas among us to experiment endlessly trying desperately to discover something never created before.  If we knew, we wouldn't be having to reverse engineer UFOs that have fallen from the sky.

But we don't know.  So, there is much yet to learn about everything around us.  It makes life exciting and worth the thrill of discovery.  With 6 1/2 billion brains on the Earth, it's a little mathematically difficult to have a thought that is new.  But, it's still possible.  If you find yourself in the fabulous position of having one of those unique thoughts, please do something about it.  The world needs it.  We advance as a civilization because you had it.  But, it does have to be presented.  Advance us all, please.