Thought is the action or process of thinking.How a thought generates in the Human mind?
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I think science didn't find answer or evidence about how a thoughts generate in human mind. However, memories, reading, environment, experiences, our five senses, people, situations, ... could be considered as factors that help in generate thoughts.
First mind receives any stimuli, then start thinking and generates thoughts and ideas.
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"Origins of our thoughts
A Releasing Your Unlimited Creativity discussion topic
Within the creativity perspective, our thoughts are seen simply as our mind characterizing, describing or otherwise somehow explaining the energy our body perceives. The mind’s characterization is based on our past experiences and how we have focused our attention and awareness. Whether that thought is experienced as an idea, an image, a vision or awareness of knowing something without really being able to explain what is known doesn’t matter. The thoughts is simply our mind "playing" with the energy we experience. In this regard, thoughts are simply consciousness at play with the energy consciousnessexperiences.
From a creativity perspective, the human being is a creativity machine. It allows us to take the energy we sense to create thoughts from that energy and transform or convert that thought into actions in the world. The body gives us the ability to create material forms starting from the formless energy which gives rise to the starting thought. It gives us the ability to create thoughts out of a seemingly nothing and manifest them in Physical Creation as an object or experience.
It many ways the creation of thoughts out of a seemingly nothingness is a process of converting energy into particles without rest mass analogous to the pair production phenomenon. In fact, as discussed in the topic, "The duality of mind," creating a thought can be seen as creating a thought and an "antithought" which resides in the nonconsciousaspect of our mind.
As a creative tool, we can look at the mind and body like a radio. The structure of our body is like an antenna. It is especially designed for sensing and amplifying a particular type and kind of energy and ultimately determines our receptiveness to the energy of Creation. Because of our body, the energy we sense tends to hold our awareness localized in thephysical experience of a human being. Alternatively said, our body causes us to interpret the energy we sense into thoughts about being a human being as opposed to being an infinite creator. The mind is like the receiver which can be tuned to a particular energy. We tune the mind by how we focus our attention and awareness in what we think and believe.".....
Please, see the original article for more detail...
http://ryuc.info/creativityphysics/mind/origin_of_thoughts.htm
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"WHAT ARE THOUGHTS MADE OF?
They’re really just electro-chemical reactions—but the number and complexity of these reactions make them hard to fully understand…
The human brain is composed of about 100 billion nerve cells (neurons) interconnected by trillions of connections, called synapses. On average, each connection transmits about one signal per second. Some specialized connections send up to 1,000 signals per second. “Somehow… that’s producing thought,” says Charles Jennings, director of neurotechnology at the MIT McGovern Institute for Brain Research.
Given the physical complexity of what’s happening inside your head, it’s not easy to trace a thought from beginning to end. “That’s a little like asking where the forest begins. Is it with the first leaf, or the tip of the first root?” says Jennings. Simpler, then to start by considering perceptions—“thoughts” that are directly triggered by external stimuli—a feather brushes your skin, you see these words on the computer screen, you hear a phone ring. Each of these events triggers a series of signals in the brain.
When you read these words, for example, the photons associated with the patterns of the letters hit your retina, and their energy triggers an electrical signal in the light-detecting cells there. That electrical signal propagates like a wave along the long threads called axons that are part of the connections between neurons. When the signal reaches the end of an axon, it causes the release of chemical neurotransmitters into the synapse, a chemical junction between the axon tip and target neurons. A target neuron responds with its own electrical signal, which, in turn, spreads to other neurons. Within a few hundred milliseconds, the signal has spread to billions of neurons in several dozen interconnected areas of your brain and you have perceived these words. (All that and you probably didn’t even break a sweat.)
The fact that you are then able to convert the perception of these shapes into symbols, language, and meaning is a whole other story—and a good indication of the complexity of neuroscience. Trying to imagine how trillions of connections and billions of simultaneous transmissions coalesce inside your brain to form a thought is a little like trying to look at the leaves, roots, snakes, birds, ticks, deer—and everything else in a forest—at the same moment.
With new brain imaging tools, however, researchers are making strides towards doing just that. A better understanding of where and how different types of thoughts arise in the brain—such as facial recognition, emotion, or language—may help researchers develop treatments for disorders such as autism or dyslexia.
But reaching that goal? “That’s a tall order,” said Evelina Fedorenko, a postdoctoral associate at the McGovern Institute. Working with Brain and Cognitive Sciences professor Nancy Kanwisher, Fedorenko is working to develop better tools for dissecting recordings of thoughts. Their recent work reveals a clearer picture of where the brain processes language, one of the defining activities that makes us human. — Elizabeth Dougherty"
http://engineering.mit.edu/ask/what-are-thoughts-made
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When we sleep the mind is in repose and/or in weak activity.
Dr. S,C,Kundu answer is bit suitable and worthy. Friend, there are five principal-main or ultimate subjects in universe called Vishaya=Subjects like Shabda=Words or different all types of sounds, Sparsha=Different and varied Touch or contacts may be direct, indirect or remote, Roop= Different varied shapes, scene, pictures, sketches etc., Rasa= Tastes -main six and in combination many and Gandha= Different varied odor or smell or flavor. There are innumerate sub and sub subjects of these main subjects and these are formed the Stimulus for thought in mind.
The perception of these abundant and varied stimulus is only by five Sensory organs like Ears, Skin (largest spread sensory organ in body-external and interior), Eyes, Tongue and Nose.
Why principal subjects are five? because the Universal Elements are only five like Prthivi=Foundation and shaping universal energy with varied manifestation in different forms, Aap=Cohesion or liquid universal energy in many manifestations, Teja= Transformation universal energy in many and varied forms, Vayu= All types of Action initiator universal energy in many varied forms and Aakash=Space without which nothing can be in existence. These universal elements are present in all ultra-micro, macro living and non living material.
Mind is always conjugated with subjects, without which we will not get knowledge. It is always mobile, changing the subjects, may reach sky and in no time may come to earth.
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"Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter."
----- Mark Twain
How a thought generates in the Human mind?
Sometimes very difficult :-)
Especially the good ones and clever ideas.
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This article was originally published with the title "Can we control our thoughts? Why do thoughts pop into my head as I'm trying to fall asleep?"
"We are aware of a tiny fraction of the thinking that goes on in our minds, and we can control only a tiny part of our conscious thoughts. The vast majority of our thinking efforts goes on subconsciously. Only one or two of these thoughts are likely to breach into consciousness at a time. Slips of the tongue and accidental actions offer glimpses of our unfiltered subconscious mental life.
The intrusive thoughts you may experience throughout the day or before bed illustrate the disconcerting fact that many of the functions of the mind are outside of conscious control. Whether we maintain true control over any mental functions is the central debate about free will. Perhaps this lack of autonomy is to be expected as the foundations for almost all the mind's labors were laid long before our ancestors evolved consciousness.
Even deliberate decisions are not completely under our power. Our awareness only sets the start and the end of a goal but leaves the implementation to unconscious mental processes. Thus, a batter can decide to swing at a ball that comes into the strike zone and can delineate the boundaries of that zone. But when the ball comes sailing through, unconscious mental functions take over. The actions required to send him to first base are too complex and unfold too quickly for our comparatively slow conscious control to handle.
We exert some power over our thoughts by directing our attention, like a spotlight, to focus on something specific. The consequences of doing so can be amusing, as in the famous experiments in which about one third of the people watching a basketball game failed to spot a man in a gorilla suit crossing the court. Or the consequences can be disastrous, as when a narrow focus prevents a driver from noticing a light turning red or an oncoming train.
Although thoughts appear to “pop” into awareness before bedtime, their cognitive precursors have probably been simmering for a while. Once those preconscious thoughts gather sufficient strength, the full spotlight of consciousness beams down on them. The mind's freewheeling friskiness is only partly under our control, so shutting our mind off before we sleep is not possible."...
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http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/can-we-control-our-thoughts/
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"Grand Challenge: How Does the Human Brain Work and Produce Mental Activity?
....... Mapping the Human Brain
The idea of mapping the human brain is not new. The “father of neuroscience,” Santiago Ramon y Cajal, argued at the turn of the 20th century that the brain was made up of neurons woven together in a highly specific way. We have been trying to map this exquisite network since then.
In fact, scientists in other settings have called the wiring diagram a Grand Challenge of neuroscience in and of itself. It appears on the Grand Challenges of the Mind and Brain list for the National Science Foundation (NSF, 2006), on the Grand Challenges list of the National Academy of Engineering (NRC, 2008), and on the wish lists of at least a half-dozen major scientific fields, from genetics to computer science.
If we are interested in how the mind works, then we definitely need to know the physical instantiation of brains and function, remarked Jeffrey Lichtman, professor of molecular and cellular biology, Harvard University. This effort will require some mechanism to obtain the connectional maps that will integrate anatomy, neuronal activity, and function. Until those are available, the field will not be able to move forward to its full potential.
The challenge is similar, in many ways, to mapping the human genome: We might not know exactly what we will learn, but we have a strong belief that we will learn a lot, commented Leshner.
So why has it not happened?
Because neurons are very small and the human brain is exquisitely complex and hard to study. Eve Marder, professor of neuroscience at Brandeis University and president of the Society for Neuroscience, noted that scientists have been working on circuit analysis for nearly 40 years, primarily with smaller organisms, particularly invertebrates, because their simpler neurological systems are more amenable to study and analysis.
The classic approach, in place since the 1960s, has been simple: Define behaviors, identify neurons involved in those behaviors, determine the connectivity between those neurons, and then excite individual neurons to understand their role in influencing behavior. This approach is called “circuit dynamics,” and it has been tremendously helpful to understanding how these simple neurological systems work.
But as you move from sponges and anemones to primates and humans, each step of that analytical process becomes infinitely more challenging.
As Marder noted, the impediments, until today, to understanding larger circuits and vertebrate brains include difficulty in identifying neurons, difficulty in perturbing individual classes of neurons in isolation, and difficulty in recording from enough of the neurons at the same time with enough spatial and temporal resolution.
In other words, difficulty arose in every step of the circuit dynamics process.
But the key words in Marder’s statement are “until today.” If you look at the three things Marder identified as stumbling blocks, major technological breakthroughs over the past few years have solved or are close to solving each one, starting with a new technique born from the lab of Lichtman: “the Brainbow.”.....
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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK50989/
The brain is the Central Processing Unit and receives thoughts in the form of a code (similar to computer "Machine Language") from an external source and them processes the code in using two, main procedures. First, the brain sends the thought to the memory to see if, within our memory bank there exists the information and knowledge needed to understand and use the thought. For example, a thought that has suddenly occurred to us - the desire or urge to have a cup of coffee. Once received, the memory immediately transmits information: what coffee is, what coffee we know and prefer. The processor takes the next step and decides how much coffee, when and where... All these are actions that it already recognizes.
The second procedure is the brain's reaction to a new thought, one for which it has no previous information in its memory banks. For example, the desire to purchase a new product or service, to try a food that we've never tried before and so on. In this type of situation, the brain goes into a analytical and experimental state using the five senses as its assistants.
In other words, the brain is a mechanism that helps us to understand. It doesn't manage our thoughts but rather the work needed to understand and execute our thoughts. It understands the thought and distributes the appropriate orders.
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Blogs/Message.aspx/5343
Thought is experienced as an idea, an image, a vision or awareness of knowing something without really being able to explain. This includes the thoughts, concepts, ideas, images or whatever we experience in our mind. we start selecting our intuitive guidance over the thoughts that arise from our mind that we begin to become that conscious creator. our body does not limit us to access any energy of Creation
There are two different questions. How a thought generates in a animal mind, And how a creative thought generates in the human mind.
But then arises the doubt, can the mind of man, which has, as I fully believe been developed from a mind as low as that possessed by the lowest animal, be trusted when it draws such grand conclusions? ~ Charles Darwin
"Until now, we always assumed that our thoughts originated in our brain. However, it is now clear that this assumption is not correct. In fact, our thoughts originate from outside of our bodies! The brain does not create our thoughts, but rather processes them and tries to adapt them to our ability to understand and function.
Until now, we understood that our desires or plans are the result of electro-chemical processes taking place in our brain - but what triggers these activities? Is it the brain itself? The answer is no! Thoughts enter our brain from a source that is outside of our physical body and, only when they reach the brain, does it begin to act and decipher them..."
This is fine resource brought by @Fateh.
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Blogs/Message.aspx/5343#.VuFJcNIrLIU
Thought is the reaction to external stimuli, the stimuli may be experienced in live activity or in dream or in collecting past memories.
From a neurobiological point of view, when you think, some neurons are firing in your brain.
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"The secret of human power lies in the mind and the thoughts it produces."
– Dr T.P.Chia
How a thought generates in the Human mind?
Thought is generated when a person is interacting with his / her surrounding environment be it interacting with other people or observing any event etc.
Your definition of thought refers to action / process of thinking which is in line with mental model. According to Rouse and Morris (1986), mental model is a mechanism whereby an individual is capable to produce understanding of a system’s purpose, the system’s form, explanation on how the system is working, the system’s current states as well as prediction of its future states. In a different perspective but referring to the same concept, mental model is an internal cognitive view formed in an individual’s mind after what he or she had perceived from the external world (McShane & Von Glinow, 2008). An individual’s mental model can be e.g. a house (object), an accident (event) or a process such as a caterpillar’s development to a butterfly which reflect the individual’s perception of reality. Mental model can serves as an important roadmap to provide understanding, explanation and predictability to guide an individual’s decision making, preferences and behaviors.
Thought is a force, as is gravitation or repulsion.
-Swami Vivekananda
(The complete works, v.1, p.201)
https://www.google.co.in/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8#q=swami%20vivekananda
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Millions of people daily communicate through optical fibre network around the world, using light signals which is elctromagnetic force. Wireless transmissions to satellites, TV and through mobile phones are done with electromagnetic force.
Everything that human creates begins with a class of thoughts called ideas. Idea force human organs into action. How is that possible if thoght is not a force. Thoughts are the connecting links between metaphysical and physical world. When a person speaks he first encodes his mental picture on to a thought wave so as to produce a sound which he associates with the idea of the picture which he and others around him can understand according to the language known to them and the corresponding alphabets and words stored in the memory. This first sound is audible only to his spiritual (non-physical) ear. This sound can die here if the thought is not communicated to the (physical) vocal organ. This depends on whether or not person is willing to speak his thought. The will of the person is a thought carrying a command to release or not to release the earlier thought carrying the sound. When it is released, it causes the lungs to pump the air through the vocal organ, it causes the mouth to open, toungue and lips to make specific movement to crate the desired sound which is audible to physical ear. Intellect associates this sound with specific pictures and ideas and thus the meaning of the sound becomes clear to the intelligence and so it understands.
Folowing is what I think about the origin of the thought. There is the physical vocal organ and the physical medium (air) for the sound to travel. In the same way there is a metaphysical organ for generating thought which travels in the metaphysical medium which is the stuff of the mind which is created by subtle portion of the food we eat which is not known to science. This metaphysical medium communicates the thought to the metaphysical ear through which the person can hear his thought. But others cannot hear his thought. When metaphysical organ causes a thought, it generates a thought wave in the metaphysical medium and this wave is encoded to produce the desired sound. Generally the mental picture is encoded and translated into a group of sound waves. The intelligence decodes the sound waves and the thought waves again into mental pictures thus the understanding takes place.
Next part of my theory deals with what happens during sleep and dream. Also the difference between the will of man and the will of God.
When the human mind is in waking state, it controls the thought generating organ, but when it is asleep, this organ is controlled by higher forces behind the mind. These higher forces originate from a unified field of consciousness (Spirit) which pervades the entire universe. During the sleep this organ keeps generating thoughts and the intelligence decodes thoughts into pictures which make up our dreams. Most of the times the thought generating organ simply picks some pictures from the memory and generates thoughts with the help of intelligence and thus many dreams may have connection with what is already known to us. In such cases no higher powers may be involved. Higher powers may intervene when a dream having a spiritual nature takes place. And higher powers may also intervene when some guidence is provided during the waking state of the mind. Metaphysical organ controls the physical vocal organ. In the same way there must be a deeper spiritual organ that would generate a spiritual thought which is more subtle than the human thought and that takes place in a spiritual medium which is more subtle than the medium of the human mind. This is where the difference between the will of the man and the Will of the God occures. Will is a kind of thought that carries a command with authority. It commands to do certain things or refrain from doing certain things. Will of the man is a thought that travels through the medium of the mind which is a relatively low energy wave. Will of the God is a thought wave that travels through a spiritual medium and carries a very high level of energy. Thus thought waves are similar to electromagnetic waves but cannot be detected by material detectors because they are much more subtle.
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"Loneliness is part of being human. It reminds us that we are not complete in ourselves."
– David Runcorn
Our mind is gift for us ,which has an unique power force generated within us .This super quality of mind inspires us for thinking line of action ,& it is in this line of action which are the created power for our mind to carry out the action of our life.
For every human beings we all have with us HEAD ,MIND ,& BRAIN with the inner energy force for inspiring us to think & act for our action which remain the guiding force for our development & career growth .
We all are aware that as human beings we all have a different temperament ,intelligence ,& to view our 5 elements in which way we are to implement for our life ,our growth,our development ,& our achievement .
In the line of the above ,we should not forget that we all are born with the resulting fruits of action of our previous lives the resulting fruits of which we are to implemented either positive or negative to process our life line in right way direction or otherwise to reach what we are to be in this life .
It is this thinking process for which we are to make our life.This is my personal opinion
There are things in the human mind that are not meant to be seen or touched, things seldom even acknowledged by our conscious selves. Fantasies, impulses, rages, hatreds, primitive instincts. They're buried deep, usually, and that's where they belong. ~ Kay Hooper
The human mind is so limited it can only build an arbitrary heaven — and usually the physical comforts they endow it with are naively the kind that can be perceived as we humans perceive — nothing more. No: perhaps I will awake to find myself burning in hell. I think not. I think I will be snuffed out. Black is sleep; black is a fainting spell; and black is death, with no light, no waking. ~ S. Plath
I suppose that current science is still undiscovered thoughts generation process, but may be tomorrow
i think , there are signals that create thoughts, mental connection in our brain, generate thoughts.
http://openventio.org/Volume1_Issue1/From_Brain_to_Mind_A_Plain_Route_from_Neurobiology_to_Psychology_PCSOJ_1_103.pdf
i think,every human mind possess some built-in-operators/functions which help to modulate and accumulate the heart feelings.I think thoughts develop in the heart and brain transmitting it to the outside environment.
A mathematical view on personality, by Solve Sæbø!
"It is this individual unpredictability that makes it so hard to understand the human mind. The only thing we can do is to use statistical models like the Big Five (factor analysis) or Jung/Lowen (dichotomous classification) to try to separate the stable properties of the attractors from the unpredictable chaotic variation among individuals. However, new brain scanning technologies now provide unprecedented possibilities to go beyond Carl Jung and to study the strange attractors of the brain by multivariate statistical meta-analysis in order to get a better grip on what makes us similar, yet different."
http://blogs.plos.org/neuro/2016/03/21/a-mathematical-view-on-personality-by-solve-saebo/
While being silent, certainly something comes to my mind which my analytical ability becomes agree that it is very impressive. That is the way, a new thought comes to my mind.
The thinking process required to transfer a reality, through sensation, to human’s brain and based on stored knowledge, reality can be judged or analyzed. Stored knowledge in mind is cumulative and is acquired through family, study, experience, and belief.
Please refer to this book "Nature of Human Thought". https://nariphaltan.org/thoughtbook.htm
For specific answer please read this article; https://nariphaltan.org/humanthought.pdf
Our brain is a thinking machine. We have five sense organs; eyes, ears, nose, tongue and skin. Through these organs, we can perceive the external World. When these sensation through neurons reach our brain, these are coded in the form of memories in different areas of cerebral cortex of brain. Exact biological process of emergence of thought is not discovered yet, but we know, thoughts pop out spontaneously out of the brain like waves in a Ocean and are kaleidoscopic like moving clouds. But the generation of these thoughts are decided not only by the recent memories coded in the brain but also by the million years of evolutionary patterns and genetic build up.
Best way to learn about mind follow Buddhism ( Abidhamma part). too much cant explain here. our body is just a hired vehicle from universe. our body and parts relative to time space and energy. body is created by (Solid Stated Energy levels
I would like put forward a slightly different question I have been thinking recently. My question is do we really have the freedom to generate a thought? My question mainly pertains to the conscious thoughts and not the thoughts that goes on in the back of our mind most of the time. For example, I can "voluntarily" think about a flower, a car or any past events. My question is what I just referred to as "voluntarily" is it really voluntary ?
On a physical/neurological level, any thought is just electro-chemical process that goes on in the brain. So, if I want to consciously/voluntarily think about a particular flower, a certain electro-chemical process should run in our brain. And if that is true, something/ someone has to trigger that reaction in the brain. At this point I have two hypothesis which I call the a). spiritual hypothesis and b) philosophical hypothesis.
a) The spiritual hypothesis is simple. There exist a fundamental self/soul, independent of our physicality that triggers the reaction.
b)Philosophical hypothesis is that our thoughts are generated just as a reaction to the inputs that are continuously brought into our brain by the sensory organs or inputs from our memory. Meaning our thought/ electro-chemical process in the brain is generated just a reaction to the situation that prevails inside or outside of our body. Thus, the feeling that we can generate a thought voluntarily is just an illusion. A mathematical analogy would be- our brain is an equation that generates different solutions (thoughts) for different boundary conditions ( the inputs from our sensory organs or inputs from memory).
"I claim that consciousness is always bound to a sensory modality, that there is inevitably some auditory, visual or tactile aspect to it. All kinds of mental imagery, such as inner speech or visual memory, can of course be conscious. We see things in our mind’s eye; we hear our inner voice. What we are conscious of are the sensory-based contents present in working memory..."- Peter Carruthers, Distinguished University Professor of Philosophy at the University of Maryland
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/there-is-no-such-thing-as-conscious-thought/
... The theory of seeds in the mental stream thus provides a mode of talking about causality that does not exclude the notions of latency and disposition. By applying the organic imagery that is associated with seeds and sprouting to mind and mental phenomena the Sautrāntikas open the door for an understanding of mentation as a dynamic and creative process. A causal account of the mental conditioning has thus been supplemented by a dispositional account of mental states (even though ultimately these dispositions are not really true factors of existence).
Furthermore, given the association of intentional mental states with consciousness or cognitive awareness, cognitive events are regarded as the main force sustaining and perpetuating the life cycle, even though Buddhist traditions also admit that in certain states of meditative absorption there is no mental activity. For the Sautrāntikas it is the body with its sense organs and various other conditioning factors that are appropriated in consciousness, ensuring thus that some type of mentation whether in a conscious, subliminal, or subtle mental form (viz., dreamless sleep), is always ongoing. A debate only arises when considering the causal mechanism that permits the emergence of consciousness from cessation.... Coseru, C. (2009). Mind in Indian Buddhist Philosophy.
I think the thoughts are generated from the memories. when we experience something from outside of our body that experience becomes our knowledge which is stored as memories in our hardware called the brain. Each brain cell when talking to each other through synapsis process a pattern of activity is formed (when one brain cell transfers the information to another and collectively a pattern of activity is formed) which is thought.
As we all know that our mind is the respective quality - our friend ,philosopher & guide & with this our mind never gets tired .As human beings either in our activities - action - or in our working environment mour mind remain thinking & our thought generates as apart of thinking process of an also it may create a thinking process in our mind .
With this our thoughts remain a guiding factor generating in our mind .
This is my personal opinion
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