The Subconscious Art of Thought Formation
The answer is based on the understanding that a thought, which seems controlled and conscious, is actually the result of a deeply hidden process in which, from a multitude of available representations, the exact response that corresponds to our needs and desires is “selected.” As noted in one of the sources, “we perceive the results of this process, i.e. coherent thoughts; sometimes we are able to trace its initial impulses. But the most intermediate process, the result of which is thought, is the process that finds an answer to a question not admitted by us, as Hartmann excellently demonstrated. We know that this is a rational and appropriate process because the thought is conditioned by it—it is searching for the desired answer among an infinite number of possible representations. But just as all these representations available to us exist outside the bright sphere of our actual consciousness, so too must the thought, in order to find them, be forced to step beyond its boundaries.” (source: link txt, page: 510)Thus, the formation of thought beyond explicit conscious control occurs as follows:1. There is an enormous array of possible representations that is not directly in the focus of our consciousness.2. From this array, an unconscious process selects the variant that corresponds to our hidden needs or the task at hand.3. The final result—a coherent thought—appears in our consciousness already as a formed product, although its selection took place automatically, beyond direct control.This concept reflects the idea that our consciousness largely depends on subconscious mechanisms for choosing and forming thoughts, ensuring the rationality and appropriateness of the decisions we make without conscious intervention.