Be patient and you might find out.
The brain knows something has to cease, expire, âdieâ, for it to be free, and it knows it would be the end of what it knows/believes, which is terrifyingâŚbut it isnât being âperverseâ.
So where is the element of realisation in all of this? At which point does a possibility become an actuality?
Letâs be clear about the question. We are asking at which point the brain realises it is free from the entire burden of thought. This is the question, isnât it? It is all about the point at which the brain realises that it is free to think for itself. What is the essence of thinking for oneself?
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What do you mean by âoneselfâ? .
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You tell me. Are we two brains working separately? Are we two brains working together? Or there is just one brain.
One brain different contents. Hitler and Mother Teresa one brain different contents. Both doing âgoodâ. One wanting to âpurify the race, the other wanting to help the poor. One brain.
One brain different consciousnesses.
No, one brain thinking for itself. What is the essence of this thinking?
What is âitselfâ? There is technical thought and there is silence? Donât know what âbrain thinking for itselfâ means.
Self gratification 
Yet you managed to read and respond to my question. That was you, wasnât it?
Leave âmeâ out of it. Brain responded to question asking for clarification. None was given.
This brain suspects that that brain has âsomething up its sleeve â.
Suspicion based on memory of reading past posts.
You mean like chocolate ice cream? Dopamine? Drugs sex and rock and roll?
A brain that thinks for itself has no psychological content - only practical content - and responds only to what is actual, not personal. âItselfâ is its circumstances, environment, predicament, with no image or idea of who it is, yet is mindful of how it is perceived by others.
I can only speculate about that point, since this brain is not there.
Do you know "at what point the brain realises that it is free to think for itself?
Yes, but thatâs still you: brain + suspicion + memory. The question is: what is the essence of a brain thinking for itself? You have shown me what happens when it is thinking on behalf of the past or thinking in order to protect itself from some imagined harm. In which case, thought has assumed the role of a thinker; while thinking itself has gone underground and disappeared.
I donât know. This may be all speculative. Does a brain that is thinking for itself ever need to arrive at a formal and definitive answer? In this area of self-knowledge, donât our very answers act as the primary form of limitation?
So it may be the point where the question is far more important than the answer.
What does one know, through first hand perception, about the existence of a brain and that it is thinking?
Has one ever perceived the movement and source of the thinking process apart from its content?
Is there thought without content?
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Some questions have answers.
Is there a stream without water?
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