What is the First Thing that Comes to Mind?
The answer to this question depends of course on what the question iself is asking. Was the question asking what was the first thing that came to my mind right after it was read or what was the first thing that came to my mind from my whole lifetime?
If the qustion is asking the latter, then the answer to that I couldn't say. What could have been the first thing that ever came to my mind? Did this thing come to my mind when I first learned to form words or did it come earlier, perhaps when I was born? Or did it come earlier, when I was still two-cells tall?
But what if the question isn't referring to my mind, but someone else's mind? The question itself merely said "to mind." not at all reffering to one mind in general. So who's mind was it reffering to? Was if perhaps my dog, who's mind would be utterly incomprehendable when first created? Or perhaps the the question was asking what the first thing is that comes to my mind of what would be in my dogs mind. The answer to that would be three words, "Give me food."
Or was it perhaps reffering to the creator, the one who was here before the world? The one who had the ultimate mind. If so, then I could not say the first thing that came to his mind because he is ageless, time infinite in all direction, neverending from beginning to end. Not that there is any beginning or end.
But of course if the question was refferring to the former; what was the first thing that came to my mind right after I read the question, well that would be the question itself. So here I find myself at a rare occurance, the question and answer are the same thing.