Self Thought

The ‘self’ is a thought, a thought that has lodged in the mind and sustains it’s self by belief and identity. The belief is that there must be a controller of this organism, there must be a thinker of these thoughts, a generator of thought, there must be a decision maker of this action and this intent, there must be a free will. How could you play a guitar for instance without the particular, management of the precise actions required of given by a singular controller?

What if you recognised that thoughts were not under ‘your’ control and they just came in, not so much randomly but within a pattern that corresponded to the organisms relationship with the environment, the past experience and accumulation of stored thought. Do you as the organism have the ability to disregard or not believe or not give significance to a thought as it arises in the mind. If so, what is the discerning entity that’s makes this decision, if a thought is worthy of taking notice of or not? Is it intelligence?