Thoughts & Language

Thoughts serve a function, and have an origin, and this is best explained through evolutionary psychology. Though what thoughts are, and where they came to be is unknown). I'd postulate that thoughts alleviate the discomfort between contrasting emotional/mental states which compete with each other. Though research needs to be done to complete this paper. Some classes on evolutionary psychology wouldn't hurt either.

If you've ever been a loss for words, it's because you've never felt that way before, and never having felt that way before, you first lack the means to communicate your emotions. Though you can remember contrasting emotional states that are familiar with the word "confusion", and remember that state of "confusion", and how being confused, you attempted to describe and understand with previous mental states, and juxtpositions between them. The brain then creates more avenues with increasing complexity. Language can begin from a baby crying to words, phrases, sentences, and multi-layered communications with meaning.

Anger, love, jealous, etc. were all emotions far more pronounced during the development of early (and primitive) wo/man. Thoughts emerged to make these transitions more harmonious.

The act of writing a paper involves many words, utilizing language, easing the transition between thousands, or even millions of contrasting mental states (micro states), and language merely developed to improve these transitions. Essentially, avenues needed to be built in the brain. Remembering a word is the same as carving an avenue to previous mental states with familiar avenues towards each other, and more avenues are developed. There is a sort of mental geography, or infrastructure as it were to human thought.

This explains to an extent where thoughts came from, what function they serve, and some basic questions about thoughts, such as how music improves concentration.

The above is entirely the product of the arm chair reasoner, Jordan R....