Thinking

Arun - Does thinking begin or end with a conclusion
Me - Thinking begins on someone elses conclusion. It begins as an observation taken to some conclusion. Preconceived conclusion as the basis for thought is dogma. Thinking is but an iterative application of knowledge to an existing body of knowledge. If it results in new beginnings or endings, thinking is the beginning of the conclusion.


Me - Preconception - when thinking begins with a conclusion
Deduction - when thinking ends with a conclusion
Academic masturbation - when thought is always in motion without a conclusion
Arun - Is it possible to have new thought or, all thoughts a rearrangement of past thoughts and experiences?
Me - Without a sensory trigger there is no thought. Thinking represents the culmination of sensation and the beginning of its evaluation. The medium, language. That's the first constraint to expressing articulated thought, thus limiting the dynamism of thinking. Second, barring facts, all sensory reception is relative. Experiences thus limit the evaluation and its expression and hence the variety of thought.
Given the structure we seek to impose on life and, the finiteness of experiences, most of our thoughts are likely to be deja vu experiences only. The better your vocabulary, the wider the scope of evaluation of sensation, which is thought. The wider the range of experience, the more shades and intensity varying.
Standardised education, with little scope for experiential learning, compounds cloned thinking. New thought requires new experience and language skills.