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What do you think was the first thought ever to orginate? Elaborate on it

The first thought that had a deep meaning was in a similar fashion paraphrase your responce

The first thought. Hmnn... lets break that down.

If the first thought is about something perceived then it requires perceptive faculties and objects to perceive. If we speak in terms of a material universe, sensory perception would be the first mark on the Tabula Rasa, except children are not blank slates when in the womb. Their brains actually process various mathematical systems such as spatial relationships and sequence, among other cognitive functions. By the time a baby is born, it has already had several dreams. This brings to mind the complexities of designing an AI.

How does a computer recognize anything except what we program in it to receive? I put forward without some basic architectural tools of reasoning, it cannot learn anything it does not already know. For example, a keyboard missing the letter Z is incapable of typing "Zebra" or "Jazz" unless the Z key is replaced. Likewise, unless some kind of primordial identification system exists in perceptive entities for classification in terms of sound and color - frequency registrations, and tactile sensations, there is no classification possible.

On the other hand, if a being comes into existence from an idealistic universe, where thought precedes matter, then the question - what is the first thought, becomes incredibly profound and important. Without a body, or universe to reflect on, perception may not be the most appropriate mnemonic activity. Beginning with a noumenal state of being, the first thought would have to be something generative in terms of ex nihlo creation.

Specific words, like Attention, Consciousness, and Decision come to mind, as well as Choice.

Choice is impossible without multiplicity, and decision is impossible with available choice to decide upon. Attention implies focus, but focus implies perception or will upon a specific thing. With no "thing" extant, this also becomes an impossible paradox. Consciousness clearly seems necessary, but it also seems vacant without the power of choice, in the same way a computer's camera may endow it with perception, and it's program and memory the semblance of consciousness, yet the computer is entirely impotent and unaware of it's own being - insomuch as every decision it makes is predetermined.

Somehow, the first thought has to be related to Self Awareness, and if Self Awareness does not yet exist, in order to generate Consciousness, the first Choice, and thus Decision, would have to be electing Self Awareness, thus producing conscious thought of the self. This thereby produces the first series of numbers, namely: thinking, and not thinking (1 & 0).

Pondering further, it makes sense that there would be consciousness of self, and thus the potential of not self, of whole, and of division, of existence, and its polarity, non existence. In terms of substance, only addition and division are real. Multiplication is a memorization trick using dimensions, and subtraction presumes the possibility of negative existence. But division assumes if one is whole, then half is also possible, and addition presumes what is split may again be combined to make whole.

If nothing exists, and something exists, then we have a division of is and is not. At some point music, the fibonacci sequence, and geometry comes into play, and cosmology progresses to the material world of mortals and pondering about wheels of fire.

I don't agree. I think it would be more about how something is interacting with them. Danger, hunger, some immediate need to address.
The aspect of I exist would require time to internally think and examine yourself.
Your first thought more then likely wouldn't be based on stating your existence so much as something related to maintaining, from which you could have the line of thought extend to acknowledging existence of self.

It would probably be better to phrase such a question in terms of cognitive evolution. Asking when the first thought occured is a little like asking when the first human was born*.

*Not to imply that humans were the first to "think".

I think it was the differnce between right and wrong because people have different opinions about it