¶ Thinking
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"Thinking is a very special kind of conscious self-disciplining of the awarenenses emerging from the subconscious, that is the spontaneous-- originally programmed-- brain processes’ handling of its myriad experience data in respect to it brain-integrated digest of its moment-to-moment new experiences and the progressive strategic choices of action or nonactions taken in respect to them.
"When I ‘think,’ I observe by careful reconsideration of the experience that I don’t suddenly move or inject a bright light into an empty-milk-bottle type of brain chamber-- as the expression ‘He had a bright idea,’ implies.
"I discover that what I call thinking is my concerned preoccupation with a special set of separate experiences between which I have not as yet found the connections and interrelationships. So I find that what goes on is what we all know as feedback, the word which Norbert Wiener gave us as he carefully reconsidered his own brain’s behavior.
“We have all experienced saying, 'What’s our mutual friend’s”
