Thinking About Thought Cont.
Everyone in the world gets to where they are by thought. Their place in the world is decided by how they have made their thought work for them. But what powers thought? What makes us decide to think? How do all of us think? What I want to know is where thought derives from. In the process of thinking about this, I came upon the idea that thought derives from decision, and that where somebody starts out from affects where they end up through decision. Why the people in our world are so diverse, is because of where they started out from, and what their upbringing was like. The things that they are shown and taught as children virtually determine who they are in the future. When people are children they absorb information, and through decision they will become who they turned out to be. Now with this information you might assume that if all children were brought up exactly the same, they will ultimately become the same people. I don’t think that this is true because of the factor of human intellect. As people grow, their intelligence becomes more apparent in their decisions. They aren’t just ignorant in their decision making process. In the teenage years, that process is added to and becomes more complex. Before, all that in that decision making process all that was taken into consideration was which choice sounded better in words. Kids don’t think things through to the extent of true comprehension of the matter. To be able to make a truly perfect decision is impossible because of the fact that it is impossible to know the outcome. What decision making is, is being faced with a problem then taking prior knowledge to predict the outcome of each choice. That is the absolute basic way to problem solve. But within that format can be multiplicities of complex strategies which over time are accumulated through execution and error in the mind. Universal accumulation however is non-existent because of the intelligence factor. Individuals with advanced thinking skills are the people who develop these skills. And those who do not, often end up with minimum wage jobs and very unhappy with life. What I mean by execution and error is basically the method of trial and error. A person has to make wrong decisions in order to make correct decisions later in life, hence the error part of the phrase. The execution part means that a person has to make some form of right decision in order to know what one is, and how to achieve one. Over time strategies develop from the combination of the two. Execution coupled with error is the basic way of accumulating these strategies.
These problem solving strategies that I keep talking about have been left unsaid. This however has a purpose. I, being a fourteen year old, highly mullifiable, and highly loquacious person have not yet made enough decisions to have come up with many strategies. So now you ask how many forks in the road do you have to come to in order to have these problem solving procedures embedded into your mind. Well, there we see the intelligence factor again come into play. It is (as redundant as this is) impossible to tell. The numbers could range from hundreds to millions of decisions or problems. So far what I have learned are the basics. Look at all of the components that rest on each option. What is going to happen to them if I choose one, and don’t choose the other and vice versa. Which one would benefit me more. Which one would set me in a better place for my next decision. All that I have focused on are the things that are changed by my decision. I know that once I grow I will have learned more about all of things that I know, and I will be able to amend them into more efficient strategies. But for now, I remain a child.
So the fact that decisions drive thought is the very reason why our world is so diverse. That, and where each person starts out from help shape our world into a multilateral society, which is able to grow and flourish with time. But the question that still lurks, what is beneath thought? How do you find that out, because once you think of why your thinking, then there is something new behind your thought. That something new automatically replaces what you just thought of, so all of your time spent thinking of why drives thought is wasted because it changes. So why did I even spend the time to write this? I did it so that I can continue my search for what really drives thought. There has to be some way that you can stop that process of change from happening, and that is what I plan on doing. What am I going to do with that information after I find it is pointless to anybody but me. I have found what really makes me work, and I will be satisfied with my discovery. But for now, I am just a child.
