The need for a rigorous model for human thought

A rigorous model would need to satisfy a lot of constraints. It needs to explain and address each of these points.

• What is emotion? The outside world must be able to give us emotion, but it should impact the way we interact back as well. ("That makes me mad" ,"You're not thinking straight")
• Time dependence ("Once he grows up, he'll understand")
• Framework for interaction with the outside world
• How do we understand new ideas? (whole school process, "He wasn't taught that yet")

How can we develop transformative tools for thought?

• How do we make analogies? ("So it works like this [other thing]")
• Thinking/reasoning ("I need to think about it more")
• A concept of what we're thinking about now and maybe a way to quantify it ("He's got too many things on his mind", "I haven't thought about this in a long time")
• What is desire, how do we realize we want something? ("I wish it was like this", "I really want that")
• What is intuition? ("It doesn't feel right")
• Abstracting and specificity i.e. the ability to zoom in and out of thought processes
• Regurgitation; how do we respond to questions and how do we validate others' answers to questions
• Dreaming
• Meditation ("it really helps clear my mind")
• When something is hard to think about and requires a lot of effort. We can even predict something will be hard to think about before we actually do (for example, when we're asked to organize alphabetically in a large group, we know it's going to be painful) ("This is really complex", "I need to take a break")
• Confusion ("I don't understand this") and a way to create questions and articulate what you're confused about.
• People can zoom in and out of ideas.
• Imagination, thinking about potential situation ("Ok imagine this", "What if...?")