For the past couple of days, I've been thinking about representing human thoughts and to understand how one thought morphs into other. In the process, the theory of evolution sprang up and that's how I started thinking about thought evolution.
Let's take anger for example. It's a state of mind which is governed by certain thoughts. Most of these thoughts arise as a result of our reaction to certain stimulus. ( Someone didn't come on time ). However, all of these thoughts get intertwined and intermingled and somehow get knotted up. As a result, the state of anger (let's say is a sum accumulation of all these thoughts ), persists. It persists, because there's no way out. There's no way for the underlying thoughts to morph or evolve into something else. A perfect deadlock situation. So what's the way out .. may be letting thoughts evolve is a way for the mind to change from one state to another.
Let's assume, we are able to extract one such thought and let it evolve. For example, in the above anger state the thought- why didn't the person come on time - if focused with some reasoning - perhaps he/she is stuck in traffic; might change to - why didn't the person call/send a text - if again reasoned out will change to - why a person didn't act in a certain way. Now the thought has evolved from 'why the heck didn't the person come' ( a primitive form) to .. 'what situation is the person in' ( a slightly more advanced form) . Reasoning plays a big part here. So with the application of reasoning, thoughts do evolve. It also means that we shouldn't let thoughts get knotted up. Once thoughts evolve, as a consequence, the state of mind also evolves and there's the way out. There's the way out of one state of mind to another and so on. Quite helpful if you want to get out of a state of mind which you don't want to be in.
Let's take anger for example. It's a state of mind which is governed by certain thoughts. Most of these thoughts arise as a result of our reaction to certain stimulus. ( Someone didn't come on time ). However, all of these thoughts get intertwined and intermingled and somehow get knotted up. As a result, the state of anger (let's say is a sum accumulation of all these thoughts ), persists. It persists, because there's no way out. There's no way for the underlying thoughts to morph or evolve into something else. A perfect deadlock situation. So what's the way out .. may be letting thoughts evolve is a way for the mind to change from one state to another.
Let's assume, we are able to extract one such thought and let it evolve. For example, in the above anger state the thought- why didn't the person come on time - if focused with some reasoning - perhaps he/she is stuck in traffic; might change to - why didn't the person call/send a text - if again reasoned out will change to - why a person didn't act in a certain way. Now the thought has evolved from 'why the heck didn't the person come' ( a primitive form) to .. 'what situation is the person in' ( a slightly more advanced form) . Reasoning plays a big part here. So with the application of reasoning, thoughts do evolve. It also means that we shouldn't let thoughts get knotted up. Once thoughts evolve, as a consequence, the state of mind also evolves and there's the way out. There's the way out of one state of mind to another and so on. Quite helpful if you want to get out of a state of mind which you don't want to be in.
