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We’re all at it, all the time. Yet thinking, or how we should think about thought, is surprisingly hard to pin down. When I did a vox pop, for instance, a couple of friends described thoughts as “wispy things”. Another saw them as sparklers, fizzing with chaotic flashes but containing a central light source that is controllable.
All of which is decidedly unscientific. But then even the experts aren’t so sure about what thoughts are, and what we can surmise from the latest neuroimaging studies suggests we may never truly pin down how they manifest in the brain.
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