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Originality does not exist, humans are not capable of purely original thought.

Closest you can get are unique sentences.

If this was true then we would all be thought-free, unless every thought a human has thunk originally came from our non-human ancestors

Collective (un)concious, yes.

There is no parallel chains of unconnected thought.

We are barely, rarely more than the sum of our parts on average.

We have very convincing illusions of free will though - like the apparent exhibition of agency.