the "IT" that thinks in me

someone wrote and asked me to explain...

I wrote them and asked who/what thinks in you??? what/who are you???

partly you are genetic... partly generic... humans have the ability to imagine... to think... we are physically endowed with certain abilities...

this ability is then made personal by what you have experienced AND the decisions you make/made...

also, my idea comes from a correction to Rene Descartes who said, "I think therefore I am!" The correction says that humans can think apart from being a self... that the ability to think is one thing and the concept of the "I" is another thing... so that the thinking is really an "it"... other literature refers to ourselves as the "ghost" in the machine... our bodies, the machine... our concept of self, the ghost... in that sense the ghost would be the "it"...

lastly, everything is information, AND the "it" comes from a "bit" of info...

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just thinking how there are such human "universals"... such common feelings and understandings that we all have and all experience...

and that we build walls up around ourselves and privatize not just our possessions but our feelings...

so that "it" as the common humanity in us all gets pushed aside to the narrower and more specific ego...

and I don't mean it is bad to be an individual or build up private property and private net worth... but that it is a choice we make...

reminds me of the lyrics to John Lennon's IMAGINE... thinking about how far humanity is from "living as one"...