strings: Now how do you get an idea—a very simple idea, it need not be philosophical, religious or economic ? Obviously it is a process of thought, is it not? Idea is the outcome of a thought process. Without a thought process, there can be no idea. So I have to understand the thought process itself before I can understand its product, the idea. What do we mean by thought? When do you think? ()bviously thought is the result of a response, neurological or psychological, is it not? It is the immediate response of the senses to a sensation, or it is psychological, the response of stored-up memory. There is the immediate response of the nerves to a sensation, and therc is the psychological response of stored-up memory, the influence of race, group, guru, family, tradition, and so on all of which you call thought. So the thought process is the response of memory, is it not? You would have no thoughts ifyou had no memory; and the response of memory to a certain experience brings the thought process into action.