• Thoughts and words are best conceived as computer variables, containers, or placeholders.
• Thoughts and words are not the meanings or memories that they describe, indicate, or point to.
• Thoughts and words indicate something that can be more thoughts and words, sensations of experiences, or imagined sensations of experiences.
• Since thoughts and words occur at different times and places than do the things that they indicate, science tells us that thoughts and words are not what they indicate.
• Thoughts and words continually vary in what they indicate even when used without variation and also continually change or vary in meaning without awareness or conscience.