For language purposes, there should be an “I.”

You Humans say, "I think. Therefore, I am."

We Melmacians say, "I think that I will have another drink."

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OMO (One Man's Opinion), there is a flaw in the philosophy that we exist because we think. Reality gets in the way.
It has to do with relativity and perception.

If a tree falls in the forest but nobody is around to hear it does it make a sound.
By relative perception it does not but from a reality perspective it does.
Sound requires a medium to propagate. Sound is a wave which affects the medium as it radiates outward. Since the tree fell in air, it does make a sound.
If the tree fell in space, it would make a sound in any medium it vibrated but since there is no air it wouldn't radiate over a larger distance.
If you have a person with no auditory organs at all and stand them in the forest alone and a tree falls behind them they will 'feel' the sound wave hit them.

So if you have a person that cannot think, they still exist.
They still have mass which interacts with other things in their environment.
People in vegetative states, comas and even our dead people have mass and environmental displacement. If they are laying on the floor in front of you in a dark room, you can trip over them. They still exist.

From a self-perception point of view.
Much of our own personality is a manifestation of fantasy but there is evidence that even a personality manifestation is malleable.
Amnesia, dementia and other brain malfunctions can make you lose your programmed self-identity.
However, the affected person still exists. Still has mass, displacement and radiates/absorbs heat.

Then there is the argument of discovery.
If thinking is relative to existing, nothing new would ever be discovered.
Physical sciences which develop real world technology based on molecular combinations would not exist because we could not see atomic arrangements and had no idea they existed until we discovered the world of the very small.
Most people have no idea how plastic molecules arrange or how the molecules stay together yet we all have plastic products in our lives right now.

This is because reality is reality whether there is anyone there to think about it or not.
We bend and blend our existence to fit within the reality, its not the other way around.
We try to change reality to fit our perceptions but it never works for long because reality is always there and our perceptional delusions are not reality.

Reality is final.
Reality is cold and stark.
It doesn't care and it isn't open to suggestion.
That fact scares the crap out of us.

So we invent little lies to make reality softer and easier to cope with.
We build delusions to cover up and warm up our perception of reality.
As long as circumstances align with our delusions, reality seems to go along but eventually, reality shows thru those delusions because reality is real and delusions are not.

I ate too much junk therefore I have a tummy ache :(

You Humans say, "I think. Therefore, I am."

We Melmacians say, "I think that I will have another drink."

My body punishes me too when I eat junk.

What I can't grasp us creating our own reality & being delusional.

God says “I am who I am.”

I don't necessarily have to 'am', to think, nor have to think to 'am'.

As a spirit bodyless entity, thinking could not be impossible.
A human head/brain would condition and restrict thinking to only in a certain way, like an organic data filter. Without it, logic and order should prevail more often.
I hope I'm a lot smarter when free of the human conditions.

Sometimes I think someone else thinks for me when I speak, and I just channel it, and try to make sense of it later after I have said it. Someone else is 'amming' and hijacking me; ?