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The second half of your comment is philosophical speculation.
I wouldn’t say “philosophical” speculation. That something was going on in the brain when we think would have been that in the 18th and 19th centuries as philosophers sat in their armchairs contemplating. Though even in the 19th century such “speculation” could be a scientific like Darwin’s conclusion that there must be something like what was later identified as genes.
Today, with regard to the brain, it has been established and verified that there is a correlation between recordable brain activity and thinking. That is no longer speculation. What is speculation, ie open to testable hypotheses, is what is the relationship between the two. For instance, does thinking cause brain activity or does brain activity cause thinking or are they part of one and the same process? I don’t know what neurologists are concluding, though there seems to be some evidence that brain activity precedes thinking in some circumstances at least. For instance:
I don’t claim to have any special knowledge in this field but am mainly relying on what I read in the Skeptical Inquirer.