Thoughts feel personal. They arrive in our minds with our voice, our memories, and our emotions attached to them. Yet the question remains: what exactly are they?

In this episode of The Space Between, we explore an idea that appears across philosophy, psychology, spirituality, and emerging theories of consciousness: that thoughts may be less like possessions and more like patterns that arise within awareness. Along the way, we consider creativity, identity, anxiety, childhood conditioning, and the possibility that what we are is not the thought itself, but the awareness in which it appears.

References & Further Reading

• Irreducible — Federico Faggin
• Big Magic — Elizabeth Gilbert
• This Is Water — David Foster Wallace

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