Like fish soaked in water, we, humans, are completely soaked in a culturally superimposed 'thought ocean', or 'thought sphere' and live and breathe 'thoughts' every moment of of our lives.
Every living cell in our body (sixty trillion cells) is impacted by the physical environment. Additionally, specialised parts of the human brain ( 'neocortex' ) are involved in handling and processing of the super-imposed cultural 'thoughts and language'.
The physical add-ons to the human brain like the 'neocortex' seem to have developed to deal with the increasing complexity of the 'thought sphere' , the complexity of human knowledge and experience.
'Neocortex', the scientists say, is the prime centre of extraordinary 'cognitive' abilities, cognition being the 'mental' process involved in the act of learning & knowing, knowledge & comprehension.
No wonder we cannot escape thoughts or their influence. Thoughts impact and shape humans even at the 'physical level' ( neocortex like adaptations) and mold them to adapt to patterns of behaviour, the quintessence of any value system.
UG has the last word about dealing with the gravity of the cultural environment and its grave influence on our thoughts and actions:
"The absence of imagination, the absence of will, the absence of effort, the absence of all movement in any direction, on any level, in any dimension - THAT is the thing!" - UG
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