Thought

Thought or thinking is a mental process which allows beings to model the world, and so to deal with it effectively according to their goals, plans, ends and desires.

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Concepts akin to thought are cognition, sentience, consciousness, idea, and imagination.

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Thinking involves manipulation of information, as when we form concepts, engage in problem solving, reason and make decisions.

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Thinking is a higher cognitive function and the analysis of thinking processes is part of cognitive psychology.

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In the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, thinking means you tend to put a higher priority on impersonal factors than personal factors.

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Cognition: The term cognition is used in several different loosely related ways. In psychology it is used to refer to the mental processes of an individual, with particular relation to a view that argues that the mind has internal mental states (such as beliefs, desires and intentions) and can be understood in...

Sentience: Sentience is the capacity for basic consciousness — the ability to feel or perceive, not necessarily including the faculty of self-awareness. The word sentient is often confused with the word sapient, which can connotate knowledge, higher consciousness, or apperception. The root of the confusi...

Consciousness: Consciousness is a quality of the mind generally regarded to comprise qualities such as subjectivity, self-awareness, sentience, sapience, and the ability to perceive the relationship between oneself and one's environment. Philosophers divide consciousness into phenomenal consciousness which is expe...

Thought related Images and Photos (experimental)

Golden Thought	Distant Thought	Infinite Thought	Good Thought Arising
Thought-Forms: The Intention to Know	Thought Temple Dedicated to Beethoven: Interior View	Pondering a Thought	Pondering a Thought
Stream Of Thought	Women's: Blind Date-Thought Balloon	Oh Sorry! I Thought You were a Neutral Vessel!	The Hound That Thought He Was a Racoon 1960