There is no, 'I' or such a thing as the subject that thinks or entertains ideas.
"One of the most misleading representational techniques in our language is the use of the word 'I,' particularly when it is used in representing immediate experience, as in 'I can see red a patch.' It would be instructive to replace this way of speaking by another in which immediate experience would be represented without using the personal pronoun.
— LudwigWittgenstein
Ludwig Wittgenstein has succinctly expressed what became one of the central challenges of Indian Buddhist thought:
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