I think (heh) introspection allows us to characterise the nature of thinking, but we started making a lot more progress about how our brains work when we starte

I think (heh) introspection allows us to characterise the nature of thinking, but we started making a lot more progress about how our brains work when we started down the neuro science path. Philosophy hasn't answered much in the way of how we think, but it asks a lot of questions about the nature of thinking, what we can know, what constitutes a mind, how a mind relates to a body. How we can recognise that something has a mind. But it has done very little in the way to answer what is it that allows us to think. Descartes dealt with rational thought and what we can know absolutely. He wanted a logical progression so we can prove everything from fundamental truths. Philosophically the philosophy of mind is most related, and I guess one of the famous problems is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_room https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_room that we can't really resolve yet