How do thoughts happen?

Answer 1

Thinking works like this, your conscious sends a request of some kind of thought to your subconscious where your sub conscious picks little bits of experience and knowledge from a large pool of memories and experiences where little bits are stored together and puts the little bits together so that it creates the thought. then your subconscious then sends the thought to your conscious where it is verbalized which is your inner voice in the form of the thought so the self your are now can understand the idea and do whatever is needed with it. the act of thinking and the time it takes is basically the sub conscious putting the idea together. This explains our exponential technological growth and the thousands of years it took to figure out primitive things. They simply had less knowledge and experience to create new ideas. with this pool of little bits of knowledge and experience our subconscious can use it too experiment and figure out things without actually having to experience them. that's how we can up with a concept like zero. the fall back on this system of data retrieval is that because its never readily available its a less efficient system than for example a computer. the system also allows for tons of memories because the experiences work like an alphabet or piano keys or DNA, theres not that many different kinds of building blocks but in different combinations they can recreate just about anything within ones knowledge.