Nature of Thought

I recall when I was a mere five years old, when my mother and I were talking about my difficulty in making friends. “I know you are different, but you will find your way,” she told me through a tired smile. Back then, I had no idea how I was different or why it had to be that way. My mind started putting the pieces of the puzzle together in elementary school. I never finished my assignments on time. Not because I didn’t do them, but rather I found myself overwhelmed by each little detail. I remember my frustration as I wrote an essay on Egyptian mummification. All the other students were perhaps on their second or third page of the essay. Meanwhile, I had just crumpled up my third piece of paper to restart my essay. It didn’t do this because my essay itself was bad. Instead, every time I made mistake and crossed it out, the only thing I could focus on was that single pen scribble and how it ruined the rest of my paper. I had to get a new paper and start over, or risk feeling like the world would collapse in on me if it didn’t look

I was living with a man who made $400,000 annually simply for being everyone’s favorite toy. This man had everything he could ever want but he was still stuck with the one thing he couldn’t get rid of; me. I am a reminder of the past, the dirt under a laborers fingernails, the ink splotch on his paychecks. As his resentment grew, i was poor in a new definition. I not only lacked financial aid, but i lacked a support system, i had no family left to tuck me in at night, i had nothing left to hold. Years passed and i got used to this life, i found ways to get to school but i still struggled to understand basic topics. Doing my homework required focus, something i could never get in that house. I scraped by for those 10 years, doing what i could to keep from becoming uneducated like my mother and stuck with a rotten oak

Growing up I had feared the responsibility of my younger brother, but now all I wanted was that responsibility. It was then that I realized what was happening. The cycle was changing; it still would try to pull me away from college, but it did it differently. That terrible year may have been the revelation I needed. I researched scholarships every night, and I learned that if I worked hard enough, I could get money to go to college. I refused to be sucked into the cycle. I helped my dad and brother as much as I could, but I exhausted every last surge of energy in school. By the second semester of 9th grade, I achieved straight A’s and the school newspaper advisor offered me the position of Editor in Chief. 10th grade began and my life itself had ameliorated. My mom had lost the custody battle and home life returned to normal. Aside from the newspaper I joined the Student Leadership Team and Academic Decathlon, all while acing my first AP class. I realized that my hard work was already paying off in opportunities and that if I worked even harder they’d multiply. That year was one giant

The body’s five major senses supply us with valuable information concerning properties of the world. These major senses include: sight, smell, taste, touch and hearing as well as the “body sense” kinesthesis.

For psychology to have any validity as a science, research must show there is a common way to think, react, and feel amongst humans; uniform mental processes. So far, research has shown that one can study the behaviors of a small group and compare them to a larger population; however, some people’s thought processes might not fall along these lines of normal. Likewise, some thought processes are considered abnormal in human thinking.

“The way we speak determines how we think”. Critically evaluate this statement, drawing on the key theories and research that describe the relationship between language and thought.

It has been a common philosophical principle, since Descartes, that each of us has an ultimate access to our thoughts. This principle implies individual’s ability to process inner thoughts in such a way that nobody else can. Even though Descartes has great confidence in his belief of privileged access, there still exists some skeptical doubts concerning whether human beings could possess such ability. As an individualist, I have strong belief in human’s power over our thoughts. Although there are circumstances that can cause us to make mistake about what we think, the privileged access to our own thoughts are undeniable.

Rene Descartes second meditation is titled, Concerning the Nature of the Human Mind: That it is Better Known than the Body. In his second meditation, Descartes argues that the human mind exists merely by itself without any physical representation in the world. This argument lead to many of his later meditations and allowed him to really build the framework for Western Philosophy. The cogent argument is arguably the most crucial argument, which lead us to our philosophy of the mind. In some respect, Descartes is on the right path to understanding our senses and their relation to the reality of the world. However, he does not assess all of the possibilities in our senses including that of our physical condition, which will explored later.

The Cogito argument, “I think, therefore I am” was a statement made by Descartes and is valid. The Second Meditation, “The nature of the human mind, and how it is better known than the body” the meditator is determined in his decision to search for uncertainty and to dispose anything that is false and contains the slightest doubt. The meditator supposes that what he sees does not exist, his memory is defective. He claims that, “… he has no sense, no body, and movements and places are mistaken ideas.” The meditator says that the only sure thing remaining is that there is no certainty. He claims that the physical world does not exist, which could inforce his nonexistence. Yet, he claims that in order to have doubts, he must exist. And

“The way we speak determines how we think”. Critically evaluate this statement, drawing on the key theories and research that describe the relationship between language and thought.

There are many different ideas as to the connection happiness and suffering have to each other and how these two things then tie into our lives. Religion and community as well as many other variables effect our ideas on our personal wellbeing and how we handle pain day to day. The stoic way of thinking, as presented by Roman philosopher Epictetus, would have us see suffering as a universal force in life that we may escape to achieve happiness. Others, like writer David Brooks, present suffering as the ultimate teacher, the force that shows us how to surpass our physical and mental limits. I agree with David Brooks and his idea about learning from the suffering we experience. I do not, however, agree with Epictetus and his stoic ideology. He believes that the forces of pain that we can control in our own lives should be avoided to insure our own wellbeing. This requires the disconnection from parts of our lives that I find necessary for overall happiness and contentment. The existence of suffering in our lives allows us to find our own forms of happiness, and through suffering, we collectively learn and teach one another to find happiness within our lives.

With almost four years behind me, I look back now and I only thing I can think about is how much I’ve changed. And I’m not like some students who are going to reflect on how horribly they did freshman and sophomore year because that’s not me. Every year I’ve tried to hardest to prove everyone wrong to prove myself wrong because I doubted myself every single day, I felt as if I wasn’t good enough for anything. Today I am a well organized student who now understands that they are just as good as any. Yes, I am one to talk up a storm but I am still fixed on getting my work done whether it's on time or late. Some reading this may have stopped and reread the last sentence and questioned late? I am not going to say I am a perfect student because I’m not, far from it. But, at the least I know I put every last effort in me into everything I do. Whether it’s rewriting my essay’s or rereading chapters for history if I didn’t fully understand them. I’ve come to realize that if it isn’t your best then there is no point in turning it in. I can also be quite productive when I need to be, hence when I need to be. Meaning I can tell the difference from a time to joke and play and a time when I should be focused and on task. I often do catch myself thinking about things that have nothing to do with the material which is being taught but I think that is good sometimes to get away from everything and let your mind think what it wants to think. One thing I’ve noticed about myself is that I know

Information processing approach characterizes thinking as the environment providing an input of data. The information can be stored, retrieved and transformed by our senses using mental programs with the results being behavioral responses.

In September of 2013, my sister passed away, leaving our family with more questions than answers and challenges that parallel with heartbreak. As a freshman trying to find my way at the University of Georgia, it seemed that I was going backwards compared to my peers and my grieving put more of a strain on my will to continue my studies. Pursuing any actions for bettering myself or my counterparts tended to feel overwhelming. Feelings of loneliness engulfed my state of mind, but what was most unbearable was my realization that I had no idea of how I was going to overcome this. I usually have a plan of what I would like to accomplish and who I strive to become, but at this stage of life, I felt as lost as ever. As months passed, I had the opportunity to attend a seminar on education and poverty. Although I was not interested in education, I attended to gain information for a class project. Through this seminar, I found the beginning of passion that I did not know I possessed. The presenters exposed the significant fact that students often times do not finish school due to their lacking in resources to finish. These self- and material doubts affect students at every level of education. While focusing on my own challenges, I lost sight of the present, daunting challenges that others, whether they be my peers or younger students, face on a daily basis. Pity for these other students had not crossed my mind, but rather, an urgency to take action. Students must work so relentlessly

Thoughts are just electrochemical reactions to Stimuli. When we experience anything, we can react to it, and generally these reactions plot as ponderings. Yet would we say we are these reactions? We must be more than reactions to helpers, especially if we can control these reactions properly. It would be disabling to know the inconsistent examinations which appear in our minds, especially the ones which are seen as uncommon or disturbing, are to be characteristically our own. An idea or thought can be for the most part characterized as a mental wonder inside the human personality that can influence a singular 's conduct to a huge degree. Amid intuition