What exactly makes thoughts appear in our heads? Even without

I suppose it is the summation of experience and the innate nature of our imagination.

I suppose this is why we have no memory of thought in our earliest existence.

Electrical impulses

>>8316030
Could it be that we have an abstract list of memories sorted by current importance and our brain randomly recalls them?

>>8316063
It probably isn't random recall. Its probably more like thoughts you are constantly having just rising to your level of cognition.

>>8316024
I think thoughts are pretty much either caused by external stimuli or part of an unbroken chain, where every thought is somehow related to the previous one. Try it, it's pretty difficult to think a truly random thought. And if you manage it, it throws off your train of thought, and surprises you with its novelty. I can imagine the way it works in my head - one thought setting off another, tangentially related thought, which sets off another and so on.

>>8316024
>Even without an external stimulus
>like when you are meditating or lying in bed.
This is nowhere near real sensory deprivation.

>>8316024
Certain patterns of neuron activation?

>>8316024
Instincts, think of them like feedback loops.
Like the instinct a baby has to suck on a breast.
Or the instinct you have to breathe.
They are autonomous and don't require your conscious effort.
An interesting aspect of this are your guilty pleasures.
You know it's wrong, you know you shouldn't do it, but you do it anyway.
In a way your logic circuit is arguing with your emotional circuit, and the latter one wins. The funny thing is you are conscious about the result, but not the process itself.

>>8316024

There are no "thoughts." What actually exists is behavior. You engage in a behavior where you say "I had a thought." Neuronal firing makes that sort of behavior happen.

Some scientists attribute it to a constant random background "noise". Thoughts appear as a result of the brain being active.

>in before muh free will and "this proves dualism"

>>8316063
Memories are sorted temporally