What is it like to have a moment where there are no thoughts in your mind, conscious or subconscious? No heart beat, no breathing, no blinking, just nothingness. That is what the gap would be between one thought to the next. Now, to capture it... Surely, it is logically possible that I have thought A and then thought B and where thought A ends, thought B begins. Or, perhaps they overlap? Or maybe, the thoughts are a string or mouse tails connected, or a set of points: Thought A............B. Fishy, this whole thoughts business as it may be, there is still the issue of what one thought comprises. Is it me thinking a word that is a thought? Or is it me having a flowchart/series of events in my mind that is a thought? I guess we can make the distinction between a complete and an incomplete thought. A complete thought being one that encompasses a flowchart-like reasoning behind the existence of that thought and an incomplete thought being one that is a product of the flowchart, but has a random logical inconsistency in the middle.
Well, let me move onto something a little more obscure: the thought comprising something awful. A nightmare: the theory of relativity (in an Einstein joking way) will take up a whole lot of time as a thought. It might 'seem' like a stretched out though, but one that does not finish until the last ounce of negative emotion has left you post-nightmare. A burn, a cut, the feelings, the reaction, the immediate observation, I wonder if these are all singular thoughts... definable in some particular way.
As I ponder these meaningless/meaningful questions (whichever be your take), I surrender myself hopelessly to the 'thought' that I might be confusing feelings with thoughts and thoughts with feelings, although a psychologist might disagree.
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