Thinking may matter

I was wrong--thinking matters. How could human beings culturally evolve if they could not think? Even some higher animals think. In fact, they have Ph.ds one can get in the cognitive sciences where you study animal cognition. It's just that thinking can lead to suffering. That may be mi problemo.

I think too much, but I don't think the "right" thoughts. I churn my thoughts like cream without turning them into butter. There must be a way to break out of this fruitless cycle. What is right thinking? What thoughts lead us to improve our lives and our culture? In addition to thoughts, what actions and feelings lead us to cultivate relief from suffering? Where could we take our intelligences if we understood them? Our cultural, intellectual, physical, and spiritual intelligences, among others I have not named, can evolve, I believe, if we can understand them.