What is thinking?

Thinking is a process in which we use our faculty of reasoning in order to assert some state of existence to something. Each one of us is involved in thinking at almost every moment of our lives either trying to understand something or to solve some problem or just day dreaming or making some plans for future and the like. What ever it may be we nevertheless involve in thinking. Then for any person who is curious about the process of thinking it will naturally arise many questions regarding thinking, such as how we think? What are the concepts involved in thinking? How we should think in order to find a solution to some problem we are facing?

Answers to these questions will not come easy nevertheless in the present essay we shall make an attempt at understanding the different aspects of the process of thinking.

Simply stated I am writing this blog because understanding thinking is one of the prerequisite whenever a person tries to understand reality (the reader need not concentrate on what I mean by understanding reality since the occurrence of a discussion about reality in a direct manner is unlikely in the following pages) and also to off load some of the overhead on my brain regarding the ideas I have about various things and also give me a better understanding of the things I am writing about. Intellect has been the only faculty I always (or at least tried to) rely upon to form opinions on different things regarding their nature. But using intellect means rigorous thinking on the part of the thinker. Unless we know how to control and manipulate thinking we are at a loss hence the concept of thinking effectively is a prerequisite to be understood when a person is attempting to solve or understand something.

1. If you find any difficulty in understanding this definition I request you to try to understand or else you can go as per your own understanding of what thinking is because it is not going to effect our forthcoming discussion in any way and I am not going to make any attempts to substantiate my position in this regard at present.
2. Strictly speaking this thinking is also coupled with emotions and feelings because human beings are not like animals that cannot think or like computers that will perform computations according to some logic when given some input. But we shall concentrate only on intellectual aspects of the situation. This is the constraint that I am imposing on this discussion.