Self-deception

No. Thought is mechanical - it is not a living being, and only living beings are aware.

Either thought separates itself as an observer & looks or be aware of itself in which the observer is the observed.

Thought can’t do anything the brain doesn’t allow. It has no agency. It’s just a tool, a function of the brain conditioned to activate thought in accordance with the brain’s psychological contents.

Sir,
There is technical thought. There is also psychological thought. When we say , ‘I am a great fellow’ or ’ Not great’ , it is thougyt that says it. When someone says you are a fool, what gets hurt? It is thought, right? So thought is alive. I mean psychological thought.

Psychological thought is life energy that has started moving in a pattern.

When you say this, you say it is interwoven with life isn’t it? Pshychological means causing emotion , feeling ,etc. It is alive then.

Thought makes images using brain’s information. Images cause emotions. So thought is very much a part of a living process.

Thought articulates the brain’s conditioned reaction. It is the means, the tool by which the brain’s conditioning makes itself known to itself and others.

Technically yes.
But psychologically thought makes images which cause a great many emotions. So its a package where life energy is involved.

Brain is alive right? How does the brain act to get about in the world? It thinks right. So thinking is inseparable part of the live brain.

Of course, but it’s a mechanism and has no agency.

Would you say it acts like a sensor too?

You cannot objectify thought. Thought is energy, You can understand it better by reading Bohm in dialogue with Oak Grove students. It is a process, it must work in a pattern when it is sane and it can get deranged and wane like a living process does.

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No. Censoring is a conditioned reaction. The conditioned brain does the censoring by means of the mechanism, i.e., thought.

I meant sense. Can it detect something & feed the brain?

Yes. Censoring is part of the activity of thought.
Brain , when it is considering something, it is thinking. So how is this activity dead? You are saying brains is alive & thinks but thought is dead.

Yes, thought is energy moving in a pattern. K said it somewhere.

The brain is part of a living organism and thought is no more dead or alive than your computer.

No. Thought cannot detect anything. It can only recognize what it is programmed to recognize.

The brain seems to crave stability in order to function. Stability to the brain is not about truth, or freedom or learning it is the assumed state of any fundamental knowing psychologically that is deep or shallow. We are the chosen many is shallow, and we are the chosen few is deep and both are factual signs of fundamentalism that helps the brain remain somewhat stable and do often produce insane terrorists. That insanity in the world, produces those who dominate their families brutally or bomb others who are innocent and terrorize people to get their way. So belief is an addiction, a pleasure which can be proven by the tremendous amount of beliefs in every religion, nation and cult in the entire world. Belief does not produce order it only feels like order to the self who is attached to beliefs as ideas, and ideals and only turns to rage when they are questioned by others who may or may not have any beliefs or depend on any themselves.So sanity, inner stability is not the same as self confidence gleaned by attaching oneself to any ideas or beliefs and living as a hypocrite ourselves.Ponder on these things for yourselves. Debates are not discussions.