“I think, therefore I am” - So said French Philosopher René Descartes, although he said it in French, obviously.
Is this statement really true? Can we really say that because we think we must exist? What if we only exist in someone elses imagination? What if we only exist in our own imagination? What if I’m really just a brain in a pickling jar, covered in dust in a laboratory somewhere, and in my imagination I believe I am sitting at my laptop typing these questions?
Foolish reasoning?
Then why the hell do people keep trying to walk through me like I don’t exist?!
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Would that be the same people who drive at me as though I don't exist? Or is it just the fact they have a mobile phone clamped to their ear that somehow affects their eyesight?
But then again maybe I am invisible
Now there's a thought - we exist but we're invisible. Why doesn't this rule apply when we do something hideously embarrassing in public?
When I was little I used to wonder whether 'round the corner' existed. Or was reality just what I could see. Then I got older and joined 'the job'. Now going around the corner is much like going around the bend.
LOL classic!
You must meet so many stupid people in your job (and that's before you even leave the office... hehehe) That would truly drive me insane. Unfortunately I still manage to meet more than my fair share of stupid people every day.
thank god it's not only me that happens to! sadly I normally retaliate by walking deliberately but unflinchingly towards whichever innocent person comes near me next
Hmmm... I can see a pattern developing here... maybe that innocent person then goes on to deliberately walk into the next person? Maybe the person who walked into you in the first place was retaliating because of the person who had just walked into them!
"he said it in French, obviously."
Is this a joke which I'm too dense to see, or is "cogito, ergo sum" actually French?
No, that's the Latin translation.
The French is Je pense, donc je suis which can be found in "Discourse on the Method" published in 1637. Cogito ergo sum can be found in "Principles of Philosophy" which was written in Latin and published 7 years later in 1644.
René Descartes was French though, so it stands to reason that he would have made this statement in his own language originally, even though the Latin translation obviously became more popular.
Thanks for your comment Annonymous; I hope this answers your question. It's no joke, and you're not dense - I had to look up the information myself! (Although that could just mean that we're both dense) :o)
i have often thought since i was a teenager that maybe what i thought was reality was in fact not real, that i was a part of someone elses reality, a puppet, a stooge. i have also felt on other occasions that i am the only person that exists, and everyone else is part of my imaginary world and that i am god.
Hi Squonk, welcome to my blog.
Your comments are quite... deep, and to be honest I'm not really sure how to reply. Thank you for commenting though.
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