Thinking

Can you ever have a unique thought? What makes a thought interesting? If you can only think a finite amount of things in your life, then thoughts are valuable. What do you want to spend your thoughts on?

Can you ever have a unique thought? Maybe if you have a thought which is long and complex enough then yes, but what makes this thought unique in an interesting way? For example you can think of a really long string of numbers and its increasingly unlikely that no one has thought of that exact string of numbers. However, that thought doesn't seem interesting. So what makes a thought interesting?

How can we separate our thoughts into a single thought particle? At least how my mind works is a stream of thoughts, never ending, each one influencing the next. In this way are all thoughts unique? Each mind has its own unique interpretation of thoughts and though we can transfer the thought information through communication is a thought ever perfectly replicated? How could it possibly be perfectly replicated without exactly the same hardware. Then maybe we are being too strict. We should consider thoughts up to some looser form of equality. If you think of a red car and I think of a red car, we must both be thinking of the same thing? Even while you read this now, it is an attempt for me to make you think what I am thinking of, and yet we will be thinking of these things differently. I like this, because now we get two thoughts for the price of one.

Each person we speak to can offer a new perspective on a thought. Can we get a complete picture of a single thought if we collect all the perspectives. Perhaps we can define humanities collective thought this way. Then humanities collective thought is still a finite number of thoughts, but is what were trying to think infinite? Is a thought finite? You can argue the space of all thoughts is at least countably infinite. Since if you think of $1$ then you can think of $2$, and by induction all $n\in\mathbb{N}$. However, when I think of a red car is that, one finite thought? If we define the instance of the electrons firing in my brain as that thought. It is a closed and bounded region of space time. This definition seems unsatisfactory. We are losing the abstraction of the thought.

I believe I am only capable of thinking of a finite number of things in the span of my life. If this is the case then what we think about is scarce. So if we can choose what to think about then what so we spend our thoughts on? Do you want to have the most unique thoughts? Do you like thinking about the same things? Do you only want to think about things that bring you happiness?

Can you think of anything you want? If I tell you to do that what does your mind go to? Mine goes to something concrete, like a giraffe with a really long neck, just to prove to my self I can think of anything However, I don't think I can. When I ask my brain to think of anything, it tries to fill the gap but I feel there are things it will never think. So when I think I like to wonder in the dark forest of thought and observe whats there. I like to do this in conversation with others, since they bring their own lantern to the forest and shine it on the leaves, trees and wildlife which I don't see. Each time you wonder the trail of a thought, you may be familiar with whats there but you could spot something new or interesting, something which makes you smile. As in life.