What is universal about a thought? Is it every thought has a knower?

I was exploring the concept of universal truth statements vs conditionally true ones in discrete mathematics. And even before going through the first chapter I thought of putting this concept into practice by asking myself what is universal about a thought? Have you ever thought about it? Let's explore together.

My first intuition is the knower. Every thought has a knower. There is no thought of a tree without someone who knows about it. And everything we observe can be funneled into a thought. These mental objects all has a knower. But there are some more candidates. Think about the following.

Thought

Candidates for what is universal about a thought.

Every thought is unique. There are no two thoughts alike.

Every thought is subjective, there are no two thoughts which converge into a one in two minds.

Every thought eventually destroys, vanish completely from existence, no matter how hard you try.

There can be many more. But I will only discuss about the first, here in this article. What are the consequences of every thought having a knower? This closely resemblance the duality of nature. If there is a knower for every thought, and it seem both of them arise at exact same time, then can we assume these are two different things? It's like asking weather a reflection is separate from the mirror. But there is a problem in this too, as a mirror would have nothing to do with what it reflects. If the circumstances are aligned it will reflect anyway. So, then there is the question of free will. If we are having a free will we should be able to create thoughts. But it appears, we can know only about a thought only at the time it appears. Technically speaking we are not the real reason that the thought is there.

I know, we cannot function in the society if we are firm to believe in this as a theory. But if we examine ourselves and come into realisation about thoughts this way, our minds will have an opportunity to be liberated from the constant clatter of the universe.

Knower

Another way to explore the same phenomena is to ask the question is there a thought without a knower?

I cannot point out to any. Book is just a valueless thing unless it has the ability to generate thoughts in a person. So, the value of the book is not in its pages, but in the thought of a person who reads it. Similarly, a thought which is not raised in a knowers mind neither does exist, nor does it has an inherent value. Knowing is the thoughts, thoughts are the knowing. So, living is thinking. Thinking is living. If you want to stop thinking we have to stop knowing, which is impossible and out of the question. On the other hand if we can observe and identify there is only knowing, that can liberate us from underlying value system. As value is a secondary phenomena unique to the knower. But most of our problems if not all of them are there is not due to knowing. But due to valuing what was known.

Let's take a break. I do not expect 1 in a million to understand exactly what I wrote. That is not the objective. Thoughts are generated, because of everything which came before tracing upto the origin of the universe. Yet I have nothing to do with this. Let's observe life and note down our observations. Just because that is.