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         It makes sense that the brain can generate its own outputs without receiving inputs. After all, people with epilepsy generate outputs without ever receiving a stimulus. Personally, I think that this is a very important trait. If we could only give outputs after we receive inputs, then that means we wouldn’t be able to think on our own-we would act like robots or computers. I don’t think that all of our responses are reactions-sometimes we talk or act because we want to, not because something on the outside inspired us to do so. We can contemplate, muse, and worry over things; I don't think these emotions are created by specific external inputs. We think on our own. Personally, I think that if we only reacted to things, we wouldn’t be able to dream up things on our own. In other words, I’m wondering if there would be any creativity without self-generated outputs. It might be true that having an absence of something could stimulate us to create new things, but I think that the ability to invent and mold completely new, sometimes strange, and often inspiringly original creations is something that comes from within. I think that the ability to create and to contemplate are all both results of outputs that lack a stimulus, and if this is the case, then it is something for which I am very thankful.