[carlo]

You can examine thought (thinking) from a purely scientific standpoint but the idea that you can examine thought from the materialistic standpoint is flawed.

To base thought and thinking upon synthetic materialism is like saying that thoughts are produced by the brain as gall is produced by the gall bladder.

A ball is thrown down the field. The corresponding parabolic pattern is developed. A mathematician examines and clarifies with the algebraic formula y=x<2. This is in the realm of thought and thinking. The question is: Does the thought in this movement come about through this individual man or is it contained within(for want of a better word) the event? Does this concept thought exist in the reality? Yes.

To obtain a thoughtful understanding of nature one does not merely take in sensations as an animal would but one grasps the spiritual(thought/thinking) aspect and through one's mileu(body,speech,script) these thoughts can be brought to others.

The thoughts seen by 2 different people can be the same and scientifically examined. This examination is not material but the same scientific methodology of objectification is used in this research which is known as spiritual science.

Refer to Goethe's Archtypes in his scientific writings and the literature of Rudolf Steiner.

carlo