Glimpses of Descartes and Derrida across a mountain stream

Indeed after much reflection, I can see that actually, I do not think. If one argues that I or they do actually think, from where do their thoughts come?

It seems readily clear that a more accurate statement would be that the thinking (at least appears) to happen within me.

I am not the thinker, I am probably downstream of that process, and yet I am also a sort of gatekeeper acting as a filter of what gets expressed and what fallsback into the sea from whence all thoughts arise.

Unfortunately everything that I've stated above is from the perspective and very limited vantage point of the consciously-awake, semi-self-aware, "I am" EGO consciousness... Which is but the pinprick of the tip of the iceberg of the consciousness of the total Self.