Completely agree, I had a really hard time following through with reading this because it seemed so opinionated and at times inconclusive. On another note, try

Completely agree, I had a really hard time following through with reading this because it seemed so opinionated and at times inconclusive. On another note, trying not to talk out of my own opinion, if you ask certain people with philosophical, spiritual, meditation practice etc background, this is somewhat expected. When the mind has nothing to think about but thoughts, and you deeply identify with every single one, you lose touch with reality. Thoughts are generated after the fact, by themselves, feeding off the universe of your own neural connections. Even when they say “I”. Raw concepts swap from the subconscious into the conscious mind, and the conscious mind assumes them as coming from itself. In a way you would be thought, and don’t think, identity is imagined after the fact, the only free will is in observing and focusing.. Personally, I believe this could be comparable to feeding DALL-E a description, taking the generated image, feeding it into a image-to-text classifier, and then the generated description back into DALL-E, ad infinitum. Like an endless game of telephone where the conscious mind can influence the participants bias to some degree, yet both the imagined concepts and perception of reality slowly drift further and further away from the initial neuronal activity, and in the meantime we filter out all the actual new thoughts and perceptions, despite them being much closer to the current moment, initial perception and/or neuronal activity and thus also much more rational and functional. Focusing the stream of thoughts in a certain direction seems possible, but only through being aware of it, not being it, as that would imply firing up the telephone game again and getting lost it in it again.