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Whose Thoughts Are These Anyway?

You're not alone. But you may be amongst the few that notice and care their minds are being overwritten by the deluge of curated content fed to us.

On a more technical side, though, that's how brains work. They adapt to the world you put them in. You don't like these thoughts, feed your brain something and somewhere else.

You're not alone. But you may be amongst the few that notice and care their minds are being overwritten by the deluge of curated content fed to us. On a more technical side, though, that's how brains work. They adapt to the world you put them in. You don't like these thoughts, feed your brain something and somewhere else.

99.99% of all the thoughts any human has aren't "original" in a memetic sense. As far as I can tell, the only way to know for certain a thought is "original" is publishing a new math proof.

On the other hand, from a neural perspective (as in relating a thought to a neural layout with specified ionic orientation), literally every thought a human has is overwhelmingly likely to be unique, because two people's brains can generally be said with confidence to be substantially different. Further, because the layout of one's brain changes essentially daily, every thought, including recalling memories, might be thought of as unique in time.

As to your post, my guess is that your brain feels as though it is in some kind of rut. My suggestion is exercise (to make rewiring occur faster), 15 minutes of meditation per day ("clearing" the mind is essential to cognitive health, has been correlated with IQ, and in my opinion is analogous to restarting a laptop), and the consumption of new types of media. For example, I have been reading 2001: A Space Odyssey recently, and it feels good to get some interesting reading in.

99.99% of all the thoughts any human has aren't "original" in a memetic sense. As far as I can tell, the only way to know for certain a thought is "original" is publishing a new math proof. On the other hand, from a neural perspective (as in relating a thought to a neural layout with specified ionic orientation), literally every thought a human has is overwhelmingly likely to be unique, because two people's brains can generally be said with confidence to be substantially different. Further, because the layout of one's brain changes essentially daily, every thought, including recalling memories, might be thought of as unique in time. As to your post, my guess is that your brain feels as though it is in some kind of rut. My suggestion is exercise (to make rewiring occur faster), 15 minutes of meditation per day ("clearing" the mind is essential to cognitive health, has been correlated with IQ, and in my opinion is analogous to restarting a laptop), and the consumption of new types of media. For example, I have been reading 2001: A Space Odyssey recently, and it feels good to get some interesting reading in.