Ideas and Thoughts

Much like the concepts of consciousness and how the mind works, the development and purpose of ideas and thoughts are quite puzzling. What are thoughts and ideas, and where do they come from?

Generally speaking, I think that ideas are in a way, a kind of thought that our minds create. They are for the most part existent only in our mind and absent in the outside or real world although they have the potential to become existent in this outer world as well. Ideas are something we create in our brain both consciously and subconsciously, and are something that isn’t necessarily true but is created from our desires, fears, and expectations with the assistance of our existing knowledge.

Although I think ideas are thoughts, I don’t necessarily believe that all thoughts are ideas. I view thoughts as something of a more natural, biological occurrence. Opposed to ideas, which I see as only a fragment of thought, thoughts have a more direct relationship to the brain and the biology behind it. Like ideas, they are both consciously and subconsciously created and again are influenced by many factors. These factors include our memories, desires, expectations, our existing knowledge, and our desire to continually learn and progress. Thoughts are the naturally handling our brains take to process and organize information, comprehension, and perceptions.

We have both thoughts and ideas for multiple reasons many of which are speculated and unknown. I believe as part of natural evolution, our intelligence is always trying to progress further, to help us process new and old information, and are assisted in doing so by the use of our thoughts and ideas. They help us to recognize and distinguish what we consciously and subconsciously are aware of, and also of those things we may not know we are mindful of.