Have you ever considered how your thoughts might look different to other people’s? Scientists are finally getting to grips with the nature of thought and how our different mindscapes might affect our experience of reality.
, the phenomenon where people have no mind’s eye. But there is more to inner experience than that. What about sensations and emotions and abstract ideas? How do these all mesh together to create thoughts? Why do certain things pop into our minds? And what makes someone prone to ruminations or anxiety?
To find out more, I turned to scientists who study the mind. I discovered that we are finally getting to grips with the different ways people think – allowing us to identify whether we think the same way as other people… or not. Philosophers have mulled over the nature of thought since at least the time of Aristotle. A century ago, it was also a popular subject for psychologists. “But it got kicked out the door by behaviourists,” says psychologistat Durham University, UK. “They claimed that it’s impossible to be scientific about the subjective nature of experience.” So, with the rise of neuroscience, psychology focused its efforts on objective, measurable phenomena. Thought became sidelined.
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