Presence, Memory, Thinking

Typically, we project words or stories, prejudices and assumptions – prestructs – onto what we experience. The prestructs enable us to move about in a familiar world that we know and understand.

Bohm talks about the distinction between thought and thinking. Thought is past tense, because thought is experience that has already been rendered into words. Thoughts are the stories, assumptions and constructs that we carry around with us and use as ways of interpreting experience. We fit experience to thought. Thought often puts us in a rut.

There is a dialogue between thought and thinking.

Where is memory? There is worded memory, memory of thought. But there is also memory of experience, a memory of sensations, atmospheres and flavors that go beyond thought.

There is a dialogue between thought, thinking and memory — or is thinking the dialogue between thought and memory that occurs in the present of thinking?