( Latin: "I am
thinking, therefore I exist", or traditionally "I think,
therefore I am" )
Is a philosophical
statement by René Descartes, which became a foundational element of
Western rationalism. "Cogito ergo sum" is a translation of
Descartes' original French statement: "Je pense, donc je suis",
which occurs in his Discourse on Method (1637)
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Brain / Mind
If we allow that all of
our thoughts are generated by The Brain, & sometime thereafter,
Some Internal Sense becomes ‘Aware’ of These Thoughts, This
Second process or ‘Artifact’ occurs after The Creation of The
Thought. One may argue that The Awareness of The Thought occurs
simultaneously with The Creation of The Thought, But in Either Case;
The Brain is Constructing The Thought, & The Mind Becomes Aware
of it.
A Principle Tenet of
Common Philosophy is that The Soul, or Mind, Guides The Host Body,
which is essentially a Robot, in The Behaviours of The Individual,
Demonstrating its Autonomy. But if The Brain Creates all of our
Thoughts, It is The Robot that Creates them, & The Soul merely
becomes aware of them as an After Effect.
This is very disconcerting
for several reasons; But suffice for this argument right now; When
The Soul becomes ‘Aware’ of The Statement; ‘I think, therefore,
I am’; It is commonly interpreted to mean that The Process of
thinking means that The Soul Exists. But The Robot that generates
this ‘Thought’, Never Experiences The Effect of ‘Awareness’ (
! )
After The Brain Generates
a Thought & Shunts it to The ‘Awareness’ Center; This
Artifact produces No Secondary Effects.
If one were to argue that
Any Given Thought is ‘Considered’ & then ‘Debated’ in The
Mind, These are all Processes of The Brain, Which The Mind is Then
Later ‘Aware’ of, But The Awareness itself has no mechanism of
telling The Brain that it is experiencing these Thoughts.
This is
‘Epiphenomenalism’; It asks; Does The Mind ( Awareness ) do
anything?
According to this line of
reasoning; No, It doesn’t.
But more curiously; When
The Brain Generates The Thought; “I Think, Therefore, I am.” It
produces it with an Entirely different Understanding than what The
Mind is commonly thought to be experiencing.
But.
Even The Thought that This
Statement means that; “I Exist as an Autonomous Soul.” was
created within The Brain.
Which means that The
Brain, As an Unconscious Machine which generates all of our Thoughts,
Must have its own ‘Idea’ of A Conscious Experience, which is not
at all Conscious ( !!! ).
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i have a corollary idea to
this, Which is that There are ‘Fakers’ in The Human Population
that are not Conscious at all, but go around telling everyone that
they are. Their Robot Brains have deduced that The Robots that are
going around telling everyone that they are Conscious, & have
‘Souls’ are Treated better than The Robots that willingly admit
that they are merely Robots & Do not have Souls. These ‘Faker’
Robots have built into them, by whatever mechanism that caused them
to come into existence, A Strong Sense of Survival &
Reproduction, & that The Best, Most Successful Strategy for their
own Propagation is to convince The Robots that Do have Souls, that
they have souls too.
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A Device The Says: “I
Think, Therefore; I am.”
Obviously; A Machine that
is built to Say ‘I Think, Therefore, I am.” is not Experiencing
any sense of What The Sentence ‘Means’, But nevertheless, In
order for The Machine to Say this; It must Exist.
The Same would be true for
a Robot that says it, even a Robot whose very clever programming
allowed it to formulate The Sentence, without ever having it
‘Programmed’ into it.
Or - - Such a Robot may
have endured millions of years of mindless Evolution to create a
Robot that would eventually, by random processes, come up with That
Statement.
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The Statement ‘I Think,
Therefore, I am.’ also makes no claims that The Speaker or Thinker
of The Statement has an Continuous Existence that either proceeded or
follows The Statement, or even it’s awareness of having thought or
stated it.
If we allow that Matter
can form ‘Conscious’ Thoughts which experiencing The Phenomena of
‘Awareness’, Then it makes perfect sense that these ‘Conditions’
of Physical Accretion of Matter to become ‘Aware’ might easily &
Inevitably occur in Vast Clouds of Swirling Matter, such as within
any given Sun, Causing this Thought to occur, then Dissipate
immediately.
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“I Napoleon Bonaparte,
Think, therefore; I am.”
The Statement makes no
claim that you are in fact Napoleon Bonaparte, or in any sense, who
you are sure that you are.
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Are we living in a
Universe so Cruel,
That it would allow us to be aware that we are Robots?
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That it would allow us to be aware that we are Robots?
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* Use of The Words Tenet & Tenant. An Ant is a TenAnt of The Colony.
* Use of The Words Tenet & Tenant. An Ant is a TenAnt of The Colony.
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2 comments:
It's not the statement that is proof of one's existence. Rather, the immediately self-evident fact of consciousness is proof of one's existence. The statement merely expresses this self-evident fact and the conclusion which follows from it.
In syllogistic form, Descarte's argument is:
1. Either I am deceived, or things are as they appear to be.
2. It appears that I exist.
3. If I am deceived, I exist.
4. Therefore, I exist.
Premise 2 assumes the self-evident fact of consciousness -- that something "appears."
i've added another exposition to this at :
http://transamoebae.blogspot.com/2013/05/i-think-therefore-something-something.html
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