As far as I can tell, "identifying" the origin of a thought ("ego", "mammal", "ape", "ID") mostly amounts to post-hoc rationalization.
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Subjectively, thoughts seem to form in clusters around particular body sensations, emanating from them like smell from... something smelly.
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It's meaningless to assign these thoughts to any particular identity subroutine - they form like rivers from streams.
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But essentially, in naming the source beyond some concrete sensation (which can be attributed to any number of primary/auxiliary causes)...
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... we're reifying what was only a concept. If we then assign this imaginary construct plans, agendas etc., we've made a joke of ourselves.
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Not because these ideas couldn't conceivably be accurate, but because we've replaced actual interactions with storytelling.
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