Original Thought

Our essence in our own mind is comprised of our past. We analyse situations based on our lessons from the past, our biases. Our thoughts are mostly composed of lessons we have learned via reading, listening, observing. The sentences we string together rely upon our learning of how words are put together by others. Essentially every moment of our individual lives has been put together due to the past. I wonder now if any thought that one has; could it be truly organic, original ? Or is it all based on adaptation and a response to something one has heard or read in the past. Are we actually incapable of waking up and developing an individual entirely independent idea ? I find the idea terrifying. Our brain is plastic and adaptive that it changes based on all the experience and exposure one gets. How can one expect to experience such a radical state of being if we are always motivated by the past ? Do all generations feel the same?; that the actions and culture of the generation before have a huge influence on how and what you do and think ? 

Feels like original thought is an impossibility. What of the philosophers who put forth new ideas ? Well they too start with the past and enquire on the validity of other ideas before they come up with an idea which very often builds on top of the old or debunks it. It is very rare for true original thought. Forget philosophy let’s look at it from an angle of food - someone at some point of time had a chain of thoughts that resulted in the first bread. All other breads that followed have the same principles with maybe some changes to the grain, water, resting time etc. there is no new original thought when it comes to bread. 

These questions have arisen because I have been doing an analysis of my thought for the day over the last few weeks. I have no idea what the answer is going to be. I will keep searching and maybe at some point have a truly organic original thought. 

C