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Every cathedral, every symphony, every scientific discovery, every terrible mistake, every joke that ever made you laugh, every act of kindness, every "I love you" and every "I'm sorry" all began the same way:

Someone had a thought.

But what is a thought?

You can decide to think about an elephant. But can you decide what your very next spontaneous thought will be?

That simple challenge opens the door to one of the oldest and strangest questions human beings have ever asked. Along the way, we'll discover why the Scarecrow may have been the wisest character in The Wizard of Oz, why Socrates annoyed almost everyone he met, how Eratosthenes measured the Earth with shadows, what Galileo saw that changed the universe, and why neuroscientists can watch your brain think without being able to explain why thinking feels like anything at all.

We'll wander through optical illusions, consciousness, thought experiments, and the surprisingly powerful question that lies at the heart of critical thinking:

How do I know this is true?

By the end of the hour, you probably won't know where thoughts come from.

Neither does anyone else.

But you may find yourself asking better questions than you were asking when we began.

And that might be how real thinking starts.

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