Hello, Inquiry! Yes, awareness is what it is and thought is what it is. I would say that thought cannot exist without some sort of awareness. We live in a phenomenal world, things complement each other, awareness also needs something to be aware of, so what? Now, at birth, the first thing a child does is crying. There already there’s the awareness of discomfort immediately followed by the need to express alarm, probably one may say this need comes from intelligence or basic thinking.