To be left alone with our thoughts can be torture.
The idea that thoughts can be captured and distilled down to cold sequences of digits is controversial, Hinton said.
Quantum theory, the Case Western authors point out, limits how finely the energy for new thoughts can be shaved.
In the waste-management cubbies at the end of our hall, there should be an additional bin, where Hurtful Thoughts can be recycled into Prayer Mulch.
"Creating time to be alone with your thoughts can be a powerful experience, instrumental in helping you reach your goals," Morin writes.
Practitioners identify awareness of the mind wandering as a key insight, because it helps you realise that thoughts can be seen as phenomena that are separate from you.
In the Anglo-Saxon poem "The Wanderer", mind is a hord-cofa, a treasure-chamber where one's innermost thoughts can be safely stored.
Ness's novel, the first in a trilogy, tells the story of a dystopian world where women are banished and thoughts can be heard.
And as for that so-called "psychic paper", in which people's thoughts can be transmitted to a credit card-sized screen – Steve Jobs, eat your heart out, but don't expect it on the high street in any millennium soon.
As Elizabeth Day writes in the New Review, the LRB "provides a space in which intelligent people can think differently; in which discomfiting thoughts can be voiced and provoking arguments can be aired with enough room to breathe".
If his deepest political thoughts can be expressed by an American backroom boy, using the template of a presidential candidate's speech, what prospect is there that an election mandate would acually inspire Brown to deliver 'real' Labour policies?
