Steven Brust wrote: > Perhaps I should use the term "cognition." But, in any case, I don't > see how we can even talk about this unless we are able to distinguish > between what happens when, say, a random scent strikes my nose and I > process it without even being aware of doing so, and, on the other > hand, the processes that lead me to write this paragraph in exactly the > way I did. These seem different in kind, not just in degree. Or, if > it is a matter of degree, then quantity at some point transforms into > quality, and that is just another way of saying the same thing. Not that it matters, but I tend to agree with Steve here. I think of thought as the congitive process that is the result of all the other randomness and other stimuli that "pops" through my head. Robert