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Have you ever felt like your thoughts are going round in circles? One minute, you 1. are thinking about your homework. The next minute, you are thinking about your plans for the weekend.
Is it possible for us 2. to slow our thoughts down or even stop them? It depends on our understanding of “thinking”, according to Michael Halassa, a researcher at MIT, the US. We go through each day in one of two states(状态)—we either realize 3. that we're thinking about something or we don't. Our brains won't stop thinking completely until we die.
Most thoughts are working in the background without people noticing them. 4. And there's not really a way to turn these things off. Human brains can unconsciously process(无意识地处理) about 11 million pieces of information per second, according to Forbes.
You can compare this to how a computer works. Even when you aren't using your 5. computer while it's turned on, the computer is still doing things “in the background”. Your computer, much like your brain, is “thinking” without stopping, even if you are not consciously using it.

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