Is it possible to have an original thought?

Many of our thoughts are reactions to a singular external stimuli e.g. You see a flower and you might think "pink" or "beautiful." You see the ocean and might think "vast" or "moving."
Some thoughts are more complex and are reactions to memories of external stimuli and combined with other memories e.g. "Imagine an ocean made up entirely of undulating flowers."
But what about an original thought? A thought that's not a reaction to any external event or object. Is it possible to form a thought from nothing?

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SW-User

yea but you call them crazy thoughts

Magnolia · 31-35, F

Can you give me an example?

SW-User

@Magnolia: let's leave everything and live off the grid, without the wall of absurd noise and without all the burden of stupid formalities. I know It would be hard at first because we are infected...mind and soul

Magnolia · 31-35, F

I don't think that's an original thought. We have heard of other people leaving society and living off the grid. The first person to do that probably would have had knowledge of others living away from civilisation like remote villagers or jungle natives.