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marti asked in Arts & HumanitiesPhilosophy · 1 decade ago

If all things exist in thought before they exist in reality, where did original thought begin?

Update:

What thought existed that Mankind exists?

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago
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    well , that's is whats i wonders about ?/? .

  • 1 decade ago

    I think that theory only pertains to things that are invented. Mankind breeds thought from the awareness of problems and the need for solutions, and it is then that ideas are made real.

    For example, the idea for an umbrella stems first from an awareness that it is raining and the need to stay dry. It is then that such a thing as an umbrella exists. So, in that sense, we see thought turning into reality.

  • 1 decade ago

    Ask the chicken about the egg.... Really this question is about your concept of reality.

    If that reality is based on earth and evolution.

    Then thought was created out of the process of evolution as a consequence of the big bang. That being:-

    A singular cell with no thought at sometime evolved to a being with intellect and thought.

    If your perception of reality is that we are here because of creation. Then God has a lot to answer for, because what was he thinking about....?

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    things don't exist in thought before they exist in reality. things can just exist without our interpretation of their existence. we humans simply like to look at things "our way" and not as the way the things really are.

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  • Think
    Lv 5
    1 decade ago

    You are blending two separate viewpoints--the social constructivist view of language and the realist view of language.

    Thought shapes "how" something exists for us.

    Things, however, exist independent of thought.

  • virgil
    Lv 6
    1 decade ago

    Beginnings and endings on/off like a fluro tube on/off

    so its constant light

  • original thought began from reality .man combined two things

    from reality and imagined it .then he made it a reality and so it all begins

  • 1 decade ago

    Man controlling fire, springs in to my mind,I do not know why?

    Source(s): TOOT
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