The Thinking - Part I

Posted on August 8, 2008 by Madalin Szemkovics
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The thinking is the core of our psychic; just like a traffic officer in an intersection, it controls every bit of information, and makes sure it reaches wherever it is needed. The thinking receives data from every single mental process, modifies or just takes notice of it, and then sends the results to other mental functions. The results are always reflected in our behaviors or attitudes. It is important to know that all the intellectual processes are mediated through language, with a few exceptions (it’s been reported that synaesthetes use colors, sounds or emotions instead of words), so memory has a fundamental purpose in all of them.

Thinking represents the highest level of processing and integrating information both about the exterior world and ourselves. Given this, we can say that thinking is the process reflecting common and essential properties of the objects and the relationships between them in a generalized manner. It collects data from all psychic processes and combines it, taking it to a superios level of understanding. For example, it uses information from our memory, which represents the past, to explain the present, given by our perception. By making these correlations between different footings, it makes possible solving complex issues, practical or theoretical.

Although thinking uses a huge number of components, they are all integrated in a complex system. Not only that, but thinking also posesses the most well-organized structure of all the psychic processes. It can be understood as a notion system, an operational system, a judgment and rational system, and, last but not least, as a product system (when we refer to its executive parts).

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