When you are saying "I", it is actually the billions of neurons in your brain collectively expressing their functional existence.

Abhijit Naskar
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When you are saying "I", it is actually the billions of neurons in your brain collectively expressing their functional existence.When you describe yourself as an individual, you are really your brain and body as a whole functioning as one. When you say I am hungry, for example, your body is actually saying, "I am hungry." While it's true that when you're hungry, your mind is focused on food and the sensation of hunger. That's what makes it so easy to believe that it's your own thought or feeling when in fact, the food eating process has begun; that process is not you. Your body practices this way of functioning all the time.

It doesn’t mean that you don’t think or feel at all; it only means that when you say, "I am hungry," in reality, you are not. You are actually in the process of eating; the process in which the body takes in nutrients and distributes them to cells through processes of digestion and assimilation is what you can recognize as "you."

Source: What Is Mind?

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