I’m sure most of us all received the survey maybe 6 months ago asking “Do you control your own thoughts?”
Obviously I chose “No” I do not control my own thoughts.
Since then the question has been on my mind. “Where do our thoughts actually come from?”
For instance, when we all of sudden get a great new idea from out of nowhere.
Another instance, when you have a conversation with yourself inside your head, who is the voice that answers your questions?
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There’s no definite answer here. The answers to this come more from philosophy than science. That said, I’ll give you my take:
The you of you is an illusion. You are a bag of chemicals, reacting to stimuli, using past experience to navigate survival. You have no “soul.” This is why the you of you can be fundamentally changed by a drop of chemical or a brain injury. We are intrinsically tied to our physical selves.
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