(May 18, 2012 at 10:46 am)Mosrhun Wrote:(May 18, 2012 at 10:40 am)Phil Wrote: Define cognitive thought. I mean what is it. Define what a thought is. To make this simpler, I mean physically what it is.
I don't know how I could physically define what cognitive thought is. A quick google search yields the following:
"The cerebrum, or forebrain, forms the bulk of the brain. The cerebrum is formed of a large mass of white and gray neural fiber in the upper cranium. It is responsible for the higher thought to process (memory, judgement, reason), processing sensory data, and with initiating willful motor processes, such as voluntary muscle flexion. The cerebrum is composed of two lateral halves, which feature a number of wrinkles, and furrows and which are connected in the middle of the medulla. The cerebrum is descriptively divided into four sections, or lobes, named for the cranial bones, which they are nearest: the frontal lobe, the occipital lobe, the parietal lobe, and the temporal lobe."
You previously stated that he does not have a forebrain, which would mean he lacks those underlined functions.
Since you like wikipedia so much, how about looking up what it says under cognition and then look up what controls bottom up attention. You have no problem defining a person as something with cognitive thought but you can't define cognitive thought? Sorry but that just smells bad.
