Thought meaning

Whatever you do don't think about a white bear think about anything else a nice tropical beach your first kiss doughnuts just don't think about ah okay fine it's not that easy we love our brains but we're actually not that great at controlling our thoughts why is that well it would help if we actually knew what a thought was really these are only two possibilites are either part of the material world like may be patterns of electricity generated by the neurons in our brain or they're not part of the material worlf like there's some cosmic consciousness that spans the universe but that is completely undetected by science yeah let's go with option one we know our brains are made of neurons and that those neurons exchange electricity signals with each other anywhere from twenty to a thousand times a second and with arround 100  billion neurons human brain that's a lot of activity but most of it never arises to the surface to become concious thought a lot of  that subconcious activity is just the brain making sense of the various inputs it gets from the world this is just raw preception like the automatic light that swiches on when you walk into a room but how is preception different

thought well for one we can think about things that are  not immediatly in fornt of us like that sandwhich you had for lunch an hour ago but we can also think about things that we can't actually see directly like the event horizon of a black hole or  the interenet and we can even think about things that can't really exists at all like a perfect circle so somehow tboughts originate and stick arround in our brains but how well the short answer is we don't know but we do have ideas like reserches studying the brains of awake monkeys have foubd groups of nrurons hot fire togather to form coordinated complex pattern of electricity when these patterns get strong enough the brain spawns preaise copies of them in different areas these copies can go to set off avalanches of further brain activity but are they thought well the pattern are complex and repeatable do they may be away  for the brain to store and transmitted information but it's too early to tell of they actually or something else entirely in any we because thoughts arise from brain activity is subconcious it make sense that we only have limited control over what we think about and it gets doubly hard  when we are told not to think about some part of the brain has to keep track of whatever it is we are not supposedvto be thinking if only to make sure we don't  think about it and just like it's nearly impossible to not think about something over you've been told not to think about it there may be all kinds of thoughts that we simply can not think at all so may be that's  why some of the mysteries of the universe  are still beyond our minds grass for now at least we can blame it on the brain