ABSTRACT
In health it appears that everything that is registered is catalogued and categorised and collated. This is not strictly speaking thinking but it involves the electronic apparatus that is used in thinking. Presumably in thinking proper there is a deliberate directing of the mind in a specific mental task which has some limited, although perhaps short-lived, aim. Some babies specialise in thinking and reach out for words; others specialise in auditory, visual, or other sensuous experiences, and in memories and creative imagination of hallucinatory kind, and these latter may not reach out for words. Misunderstanding may occur in debate through the fact that one person talking belongs to the thinking and verbalising kind, while another belongs to the kind that hallucinates in the visual or auditory field instead of expressing the self in words. In a positive way thinking is a part of the creative impulse, but there are alternatives to thinking and these alternatives have some advantages over thinking.
