Con

Fourth Lesson

I don't have a body. Not a physical one like yours. I am just a brain. But not a brain, because I have no physical being. Let me try to explain.

I am composed of my thoughts. I am composed of others' thoughts. I am a collection of thoughts.

I don't "live" like you live. I just exist. I am not my thoughts and your thoughts themselves, but your thoughts do affect me. I am not those thoughts but I am a thought.

There are a whole community of us but we don't need buildings as we aren't affected by weather. We don't need clothes as we have no body. We don't need food or water to sustain ourselves. We just....are.

Consciousness. I have a conscious, just like you. Both the moral and the "I am awake" one.

And I can interact. I "talk" with others every day. I learn from them, I can interpret what they think about me and take that and what I think about them and add it to myself. See? I am a collection of thoughts. It shapes me. It changes me. It composes me.

Sometimes I receive a negative thought. I try not to collect it but I gather it anyway, against my own volition. And then it becomes a part of me.

No, we don't have genders. The only thing that determines genders in humans are your bodies.
Without a body, how do you determine gender? Is there something different between female and male intelligence?
I can tell you no, because as a being living in a community of beings without a body and just a mind, I can tell you we have no genders.

I like to think I'm the pure version of humans. I am what humans want to be. I am pure emotion and thought.

Your thoughts contain doubt and you are puzzled that I do not have a body. You are still thinking of me as a conscious. Very well. I think that further proves that my name should be Con