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What are we without our "thoughts"?

Since "I" is a "thought" what are we when all thought ceases?

Update:

Capt. I Am-ness is not dependent upon thought!

Update 2:

skepsis. Brain also works just fine without thought. You do not think of beating your own heart or breathing or pumping your blood.

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  • Yoda
    Lv 6
    1 decade ago
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    When thought ceases to operate, what operates are the other senses. In that stateless state, there is no "I": attention has left the observer (brain), so attention becomes the observed. Next question: in this state where "thought ceases", what is the observed? This is a question that thought cannot answer, as the action of observing is not being recorded by thought (there is no camera taking snapshots). So there is nothing to understand, only something to do. You cannot know, there is only doing.

  • 1 decade ago

    Robots

  • 1 decade ago

    Hi,

    Beautiful question... REALLY...

    We are one with the ALMIGHTY when we are without thoughts but not for seconds or minutes we should be able to sustain this for hours... then only...

    It is said in India that we have to annihilate thoughts to achieve oneness with the ALMIGHTY..

    Hope it Helps..

  • 1 decade ago

    A lump of flesh and bone. A rather handsome one, if I may indulge.

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  • 1 decade ago

    A sponge --- or a lung/heart transplant giver.

  • 1 decade ago

    under anesthesia

  • ppp
    Lv 5
    1 decade ago

    Water, mostly.

  • 1 decade ago

    No thoughts, no ego.

    Source(s): Ego, thoughts
  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    ZOMBIES.

  • 1 decade ago

    we wouldn't be.

    Source(s): I think therefore I am.
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