LEXICON

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The next element essential to the Will is the Thinking-I. The Thinking-I is that which thinks, as the nearly always present condition of the consciousness. The Thinking-I is an organizer of image and thought and is decision maker. Decisions must be made and there becomes what is called a Memory Self or Thinking-I, that makes decisions, such as which way to go, what to wear, should one try or not. The Memory Self as opposed to the Thinking-I, perhaps could more imply a purely material being: perhaps the development of the Will can be described as involuntary action, where the result of pleasure and pain produces physical motor action, and then by the result of the memory, comparing (do and don't), becomes (can and can't), which becomes I (will and won't) and thus becomes Will and eventually self.

This Thinking-I must, unlike the free-floating capacity of Association, be disciplined since wrong decisions lead to unpleasant consequences. The Thinking-I is an aspect of the associative self in that it uses Associations to form organized patterns. The Thinking-I is capable of controlling the flow of the Associations for specific reasons and purposes, as organized patterns of content such as speaking coherently. This Thinking-I has the capacity of Will, to choose one option over another as one Association over another. The Thinking-I controls and organizes Association based on some categorization of priorities, based on positive and negative experience. The primary guidance for this capacity is Consequence. The Thinking-I is an aspect of the Cognizance Triad, since it would be assumed that intellegence and thought would be necessary to Will, in Extended Existence and on other dimensional planes.

The Thinking-I is considered the ultimate decision maker. However two more facets are essential to the capacity of Will, as the Ego and the Identity, both of which are aspects of the memory and created or shaped by the Thinking-I in the Replica State.