What exactly is a thought?
A thought is a private, personal, directly participatory narrative subjective experience which is typically expressed in a verbal-gestural sense modality (as words or feelings easily converted to words by an agency of proprietary interior voice). Thoughts can be discerned from images, awareness, and perception by their potential purposefulness; they serve as the seeds for public action. Generally public actions which are understood to be voluntary are assumed to be the consequence of private thoughts. Behaviors which are ‘thoughtless’ are deemed to be unconscious, subconscious, accidental, or socially impaired.
