I am sure everybody has wondered about that one question at least once in their lifetime. So did I! I can still remember I was just 17 years old when I had this thought and since then many, many years have passed but I barely got any answer to it. Of course when you pursue something sooner or later you figure out something that satisfies your curiosity and at some point in the time, I too got this understanding that a lot of things are involved when it comes to thought generation. I see this world as an integration of both living and non-living things, also I see human consciousness is way beyond human mind.
There's a plug and socket connection between our consciousness and rest of the world, I see human consciousness as a plug and rest of the world as a socket. For example we can only perceive a toaster when it exists, once it exists we plug in our consciousness to it's existence and only then we can see it's shape, size, color, etc.
That being said there is this thing called "Qualia", the word qualia itself is derived from Latin and as far as my research goes, it has several meanings ranging from the domain of philosophy to the domain of psychology. In psychology, one of the several meanings of qualia is "conscious experience of the present moment". I see qualia as the process that begins before perceiving something and ends after understanding what that particular thing is and I believe the thoughts come from that vary process or simply from the qualia. I know a lot of people can have different views and different opinions but I have convinced myself that qualia is where the thoughts start to surface.
Let me elaborate with an example. Let's suppose you just woke up in the morning and before that first thought about checking your smart device strikes your mind, can you explain what were you thinking? That's right you were not thinking about anything but probably were yawning while rubbing your eyes and somewhere between yawning and rubbing your eyes you remembered about today's important meeting with that one particular person who is going to help you to get rich.You "plugged" yourself into the "socket" of meeting and then like a train of thoughts, unleashed on you and you started having one thought after another till you start getting ready for the work until you reach your office and meet that particular person and end up sealing the deal.
Now, analyze this whole process and try to figure out how that one thought managed to manifest and lead you into thinking about a whole lot of several millions of other thoughts?Answer is you became conscious about today and then started experiencing the moment and then you started jumping from one present moment to another till the "now" present experience turned into "then" present experience That's right qualia! Now you know the answer. :)
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