Thinking is the utmost/greatest mental activity found in human beings. All human accomplishments and developments are principally the outcomes of thought. The progress of culture, fine art, writing/literature, science, and technology, are all products of thinking. Paradoxically, the purpose of thinking is to reach a point where thinking is no longer necessary. This means that thinking ends in a solution and begins with a problem.
Hence, thinking is a mechanism for adapting to the social and physical surroundings in which people live in. Thinking is what segregate humans from other different animals, and what enables them to survive and create vigilant and great ideas. Whenever people think and don’t practice, they trap all their potentials in their heads. Undoubtedly, thinking plays a significant role in intelligence. Intelligence can be defined as the ability to obtain and apply knowledge through reason and thought (Minsky, 87).
The capacity to create intelligent thoughts enables one to survive and in time stand-out. It is believed that people’s intelligence is directly linked to their thinking ability. Hence, when one thinks more and (in a proper manner), he/she acquires the ability to enhance their intelligence. When people have intelligence, they can think; this means that Intelligence and Thinking go hand in hand.
All kinds of thinking (apart from, maybe exceptionally insane kinds of thinking) bring about some sort of intelligent deed, even though at times, it can be perceived as low intelligence. The neurological comprehension of intelligence mechanisms remains vague although it is believed that the words “intelligence” and “thinking” have been proved to be completely synonymous (Sharma, 62). For one to understand intelligence it is important to understand its fundamental mechanism for acquiring it: thinking.
Works Cited
Minsky, Marvin. The Emotion Machine: Commonsense Thinking, Artificial Intelligence, and the Future of the Human Mind. USA: Simon & Schuster, 2007. Print
Sharma, Shallu. The Psychology of Thinking and Intelligence. New York: D. P. S. Publishing House, 2009. Print