What occurs first in the order of time, thought, or experience?

Question

What occurs first in the order of time, thought, or experience?

Answer 1

Consciousness precludes them all.

Answer 2

It is likely that sometimes in these confliting answers, that both are a likely breath, if sometmies, one comes before the other

Answer 3

It has to be a thought because experience comes after that thought is acted upon.

Answer 4

Thought can incorporate everything from past, present, future, imaginary, etc.  Experience only comes after the occurrence.

Answer 5

thought.

Answer 6

According to many filosophers in the past, thought and expirience are simultaneous, thou we see them in diferents times. You can see de Monadology of Leibniz, which explains very well all the relationated  with this subject of events  at the reality. These events have no time, have no space; when the substances meet each other, they create the space and time, none of them is first, are simultaneous. Hope this can be helpful. Good look.

Answer 7

An infant does not have thoughts until he has had enough experiences to allow him to put together a thought. That is many millions of experiences.

"The higher organisms possess a much more potent form of consciousness: they possess the faculty of retaining sensations, which is the faculty of perception." Ayn Rand

“The Objectivist Ethics,” The Virtue of Selfishness, 19

"Man’s senses are his only direct cognitive contact with reality and, therefore, his only source of information. Without sensory evidence, there can be no concepts; without concepts, there can be no language; without language, there can be no knowledge and no science." Rand

“Kant Versus Sullivan,” Philosophy: Who Needs It, 90.

"Although, chronologically, man’s consciousness develops in three stages: the stage of sensations, the perceptual, the conceptual—epistemologically, the base of all of man’s knowledge is the perceptual stage.

"Sensations, as such, are not retained in man’s memory, nor is man able to experience a pure isolated sensation. As far as can be ascertained, an infant’s sensory experience is an undifferentiated chaos. Discriminated awareness begins on the level of percepts.

"A percept is a group of sensations automatically retained and integrated by the brain of a living organism. It is in the form of percepts that man grasps the evidence of his senses and apprehends reality. When we speak of “direct perception” or “direct awareness,” we mean the perceptual level. Percepts, not sensations, are the given, the self-evident. The knowledge of sensations as components of percepts is not direct, it is acquired by man much later: it is a scientific, conceptual discovery." Rand

Introduction to Objectivist Epistemology, 5

Experience, aka "perceptions," come first.