Mindless Thinking - Edil Rentas Casiano How often do you find yourself with your thoughts wandering, going in every direction, without you necessarily thinking about what you are thinking? I must confess that this happens to me quite often, almost daily, and even multiple times a day. In a way, I think (here we go thinking again) that thinking is an operation, a function, that we do effortlessly and without necessarily knowing that we are thinking. Even when we say to someone, hey, you know what I was thinking?, or I was thinking this, you did the thinking, but you didn't not actually thought about the fact that you were actually thinking. In reality, you just thought or remember something, but you did not actually thought about it. It just happens naturally. It makes you wonder: if we can observe our own thoughts, who is the one doing the observing? It implies there are two different entities living inside our heads. There is the quiet 'generator' in the background that ...