A Thought

What is a thought?

    Our brains know the world around us better than we do consciously. It is a simulation machine that analyzes every aspect of our world with the rules that exist around us. Combined with our curiosity, it simulates various tasks automatically every waking moment. If it passes through our filters, it then arrives as a thought to our conscious mind. A drawback to this is that our brain only knows our own perceptions. For example, if a thought arrives as an image then it is how we would physically see it. Another example is our voice. We sound drastically different to ourselves and if a thought arrives as our voice, it uses how we think our voice sounds instead of how it actually sounds to others. Once a thought arrives, we can choose to take a physical action based upon it. If it uses our perceived voice, we then associate that thought as belonging to ourselves.

What is our conscious self?

    Our brains store all of the decisions we make and the rules we assign for our world all within itself. We choose to take any physical action based on that. We decide which rules to set on ourselves - this "conscious self" - and we call those values our character or personality. It is who we are, essentially. The rules we assign to our decisions and actions become our "conscious self" until we alter a value or rule.

What is imagination?

    Imagination is where we contemplate changing various rules that our brain normally calculates. They can be "worldly" rules or rules of our own making. Our mind then "performs" these complex scenarios and reveals to us the simulated output of our question. This output is what we would label as imagined. The simulation that is performed is handled in what we would call our imagination. Ultimately, our imagination is an altered simulation based on what rules we set and our ability to create these altered simulations improves with practice.