From Thought to Thwaction: Where Thoughts Come From, How They Become Action, and What They Are Worth

Research on human thinking explains how thoughts arise and how decisions are made, but rarely asks how a thought becomes an action, how the way thinking begins can be trained, and what a thought is worth. This conceptual paper answers these questions from Kirdomicism, an action-centric philosophy. It introduces the thwaction, a thorough thought carried by will into effective action, with accountability for its result, summarised in the conceptual equation Thinking × Action = Avalrem, where Avalrem is the unit of action value. The paper argues that a decision is not the end of thinking but the middle of an action; that self-force, willpower developed into habit, carries thought into action; that thoughts arise from a life setting described by the Buddhist Five Aggregates, with each first thought unpredictable but the mind’s tendencies trainable through a tool-free daily thwaction cycle; and that a thought has no value until it becomes action. The paper engages research on the intention–behaviour gap, implementation intentions, habit, spontaneous thought, prospection, cognitive offloading to artificial intelligence and the economics of ideas, including proposals to pay people for their data. It offers 23 propositions classified as definitional, explanatory or normative, two new measures (the thwaction count and the thwaction rate), and a research agenda of five studies.