What is mankind? Can one say mankind are, to put it simply, beings of such a kind that engages in trying to understand things, trying to figure stuff out, by way of thought or the so-called mind? In other words, thought is the instrument we employ in attempt to understand? But what is this we call thought? …Just as a carpenter must understand the various tools he uses to successfully execute his mission, isn’t it so that it can be very helpful to understand thought, our tool to go about executing our mission here, understanding things? But now aren’t we here in a dilemma? We need to obviously exercise thought to understand thought so that we may properly understand things, but how can we, using thought go about understanding thought properly, if we need to have understood thought properly first in order to do so? If there’s another instrument that will allow us to understand thought without having to use thought to do so, we can then use thought to properly understand things. But even if there was another instrument for that, wouldn’t we need thought to understand how to use it to understand thought? So faced with this, isn’t it a necessary question to ask is it even possible to understand thought? Can we really go about understanding ourselves properly or anything really?