Thought (or thinking) can be described as all of the following:
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* An activity taking place in a:
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* brain – organ that serves as the center of the nervous system in all vertebrate and most invertebrate animals (only a few invertebrates such as sponges, jellyfish, adult sea squirts and starfish do not have a brain). It is the physical structure associated with the mind.
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* mind – abstract entity with the cognitive faculties of consciousness, perception, thinking, judgement, and memory. Having a mind is a characteristic of living creatures. Activities taking place in a mind are called mental processes or cognitive functions.
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* computer (see § Machine thought below) – general purpose device that can be programmed to carry out a set of arithmetic or logical operations automatically. Since a sequence of operations (an algorithm) can be readily changed, the computer can solve more than one kind of problem.
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* An activity of intelligence – intelligence is the intellectual process of which is marked by cognition, motivation, and self-awareness.[3] Through intelligence, living creatures possess the cognitive abilities to learn, form concepts, understand, apply logic, and reason, including the capacities to recognize patterns, comprehend ideas, plan, problem solve, make decisions, retaining, and use language to communicate. Intelligence enables living creatures to experience and think.
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* A type of mental process – something that individuals can do with their minds. Mental processes include perception, memory, thinking, volition, and emotion. Sometimes the term cognitive function is used instead.
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* Thought as a biological adaptation mechanism.
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* Neural Network explanation: Thoughts are created by the summation of neural outputs and connections of which vectors form. These vectors describe the magnitude and direction of the connections and action between neurons. The graphs of these vectors can represent a network of neurons whose connections fire in different ways over time as synapses fire. These large thought vectors in the brain cause other vectors of activity. For example: An input from the environment is received by the neural network. The network changes the magnitude and outputs of individual neurons. The altered network outputs the symbols needed to make sense of the input.
| without | {{:blank:without.png}} | from Old English wiþūtan (literally “against the outside of”); |
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===== Greek and latin derivatives =====
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^ ENGLISH ^ MANTRAKSHAR ^ ETYMOLOGY ^ ^
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| abandon | {{:blank:abandon.png}} | from Late Latin bannum (“proclamation”), bannus, | |
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| abdicate | {{:blank:abdicate.png}} | , formed from ab (“away”) + dicō (“proclaim, dedicate, declare”), akin to dīcō (“say”). | |
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| ability | {{:blank:ability.png}} | from Latin habilitās (“aptness, ability”), from habilis (“apt, fit, skillful, able”); | |
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| access | {{:blank:access.png}} | from ad (“to, toward, at”) + cēdō (“move, yield”). | |
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| agree | {{:blank:agree.png}} | from Latin ad (“to”) + gratum (“pleasing”), | |
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| allow | {{:blank:allow.png}} | from Medieval Latin allaudāre, present active infinitive of allaudō, merged with alouer, from Medieval Latin allocō (“to assign”). | |
| approximate | {{:blank:approximate.png}} | From Latin approximatus, past participle of approximare (“to approach”); ad + proximare (“to come near”) | |
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| aptitude | {{:blank:aptitude.png}} | from Medieval Latin aptitudo, from Latin aptus (“apt, fit”). | |
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| attitude | {{:blank:attitude.png}} | from Medieval Latin aptitūdō (“aptitude”) and actitūdō (“acting, posture”), from Latin aptō and actitō. | |
| behaviour | {{:blank:behaviour.png}} | Compare Scots havings (“behavior”), from have (“to behave”). | |
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| bias | {{:blank:bias.png}} | Latin *biaxius "with two axes" | |
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| calculate | {{:blank:calculate.png}} | perfect passive participle of calculō (“I reckon, originally by means of pebbles”), from calculus (“a pebble”). | |
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| categorize | {{:blank:categorize.png}} | Late Latin catēgoria (“class of predicables”), | |
| falsify | {{:blank:FALSE.png}} | from Latin falsus (“counterfeit, false; falsehood”), perfect passive participle of fallō (“deceive”). | |
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| favour | {{:blank:favour.png}} | from Latin favor (“good will; kindness; partiality”), from faveō (“to be kind to”), | |
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| fiction | {{:blank:fiction.png}} | from Latin fictiō (“a making, fashioning, a feigning, a rhetorical or legal fiction”), from fingō (“to form, mold, shape, devise, feign”) | |
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| find | {{:blank:find.png}} | Latin pōns (“bridge”), Ancient Greek πόντος (póntos, “sea”), | |
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| foolishness | {{:blank:foolish.png}} | from Latin follis | |
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| Form | {{:blank:Form.png}} | from Ancient Greek μορφή (morphḗ, | |
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| hoax | {{:blank:hoax.png}} | Possibly from hocus-pocus or Latin iocus (“joke”). | |
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| honor | {{:blank:honor.png}} | From Old Latin honos, | |
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| idea | {{:blank:idea.png}} | from Latin idea (“a (Platonic) idea; archetype”), from Ancient Greek ἰδέα (idéa, “notion, pattern”), from εἴδω (eídō, “I see”), | |
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| idealize | {{:blank:idealize.png}} | from Latin idea (“a (Platonic) idea; archetype”), from Ancient Greek ἰδέα (idéa, “notion, pattern”), from εἴδω (eídō, “I see”), | |
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| identify | {{:blank:identify.png}} | from Medieval Latin identicus + Latin faciō. | |
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| idiot | {{:blank:idiot.png}} | from ἴδιος (ídios, “one's own, pertaining to oneself, private”). | |
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| ignore | {{:blank:ignore.png}} | from ignārus (“not knowing”), from in + gnārus (“knowing”) | |
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| illustrate | {{:blank:illustrate.png}} | From in- + lūstrō (“to purify via sacrifice; to illuminate”). | |
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| imagine | {{:blank:imagine.png}} | from Latin imāginor, from imāginem, the accusative singular of imāgō (“a copy, likeness, image”). | |
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| impartiality | {{:blank:impartiality.png}} | From Middle French partial, borrowed from Late Latin partiālis (“of or pertaining to a part”), from Latin pars (“part”). | |
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| imply | {{:blank:imply.png}} | from Latin implicare (“to infold, involve”), from in (“in”) + plicare (“to fold”). | |
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| indicate | {{:blank:indicate.png}} | indicāre (“to point out, indicate”), from in (“in, to”) + dicāre (“to declare, originally to point”); | |
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| instinct | {{:blank:instinct.png}} | īnstinguō (“to incite, to instigate”), from in (“in, on”) + stinguō (“to prick”) | |
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| intelligence | {{:blank:intelligence.png}} | which is from inter- (“between”) + legere (“choose, pick out, read”), | |
| morality | {{:blank:morality.png}} | from Latin mōrālis (“relating to manners or morals”), from mōs (“manner, custom”) | |
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| mould | {{:blank:mould.png}} | Diminutive from modus (“measure; manner, way”). | |
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| neglect | {{:blank:neglect.png}} | itself from nec (“not”) + legō (“pick up, select”). | |
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| optimize | {{:blank:optimize.png}} | From French optimiste, from Latin optimus (“best”). | |
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| organize | {{:blank:organize.png}} | from Medieval Latin organizō, from Latin organum (“organ”); | |
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| perceive | {{:blank:perceive.png}} | from per (“by, through”) + capiō (“to take”); | |
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| perfect | {{:blank:perfect.png}} | from Latin perfectus, perfect passive participle of perficere (“to finish”), from per- (“through, thorough”) + facere (“to do, to make”) | |
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| permit | {{:blank:permit.png}} | from Latin permittō (“give up, allow”), from per (“through”) + mittō (“send”). | |
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| perseverence | {{:blank:perseverence.png}} | from per- + sevērus. - severe - serious | |
| personality | {{:blank:personality.png}} | from Latin persōnālitās | |
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| plan | {{:blank:plan.png}} | from Latin planus (“flat, plane”); | |
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| ponder | {{:blank:ponder.png}} | from Latin ponderare (“to weigh, ponder”), from pondus (“weight”), | |
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| potentiality | {{:blank:potentiality.png}} | From Late Latin potentialis, from Latin potentia (“power”), from potens (“powerful”); | |
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| practice | {{:blank:practice.png}} | from Ancient Greek πρᾱκτική (prāktikḗ), from πρᾱκτικός (prāktikós, “practical”) | |
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| probability | {{:blank:probability.png}} | from *pro- (“forward”) + *bʰuH- (“to be”) | |
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| problem | {{:blank:problem.png}} | from προ- (pro-, “in front of”) + βάλλω (bállō, “to throw, to cast, to hurl”). | |
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| profession | {{:blank:profession.png}} | from Latin professiō (“avowal, public declaration”), from the participle stem of profitērī (“to profess”). | |
| Self-esteem | {{:blank:Self-esteem.png}} | from Latin aestimō (“to value, rate, weigh, estimate”); | |
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| sense | {{:blank:sense.png}} | partly from Latin sensus (“sensation, feeling, meaning”), from sentiō (“feel, perceive”); | |
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| signal | {{:blank:signal.png}} | Late Latin signālis, from Latin signum; | |
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| situation | {{:blank:situation.png}} | from situare (“to locate, place”), from Latin situs (“a site”). | |
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| skepticism | {{:blank:skepticism.png}} | from Ancient Greek σκεπτικός (skeptikós, “thoughtful, inquiring”), from σκέπτομαι (sképtomai, “I consider”), compare to σκοπέω (skopéō, “I view, examine”). | |
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| solve | {{:blank:solve.png}} | From se- (“away”) + luō (“to untie, set free, separate”). | |
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| statue | {{:blank:statue.png}} | from Latin statua, derived from statuō (“set up or erect”). | |
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| stupid | {{:blank:stupid.png}} | from stupeō (“be amazed or confounded, be struck senseless”), | |
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| support | {{:blank:support.png}} | From sub- (“under”) + portō (“I carry”). | |
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| Suppose | {{:blank:Suppose.png}} | equivalent to prefix sub- (“under”) + poser (“to place”) supponere (“to put under, to substitute, falsify, counterfeit”), | |
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| tackle | {{:blank:tackle.png}} | From Middle English takel (“gear, apparatus”) | |
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| think | {{:blank:think.png}} | Latin tongeō (“know”). | |
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| ultimatum | {{:blank:ultimatum.png}} | From Latin ultimatus (“late, last final”), from Latin ultimus (“extreme, last, furthest, farthest, final”) | |
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| value | {{:blank:value.png}} | from Latin valēre (“be strong, be worth”) | |
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| volition | {{:blank:volition.png}} | from Latin volō (“to wish; to want; to mean or intend”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *welh₁- (“to choose; to want”)) | |