but what's wrong with the cogito? It's the only sure-fire result we've ever got, though I might phrase it differently.
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it isn't "cogitatio, ergo existentia"
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how is that different?
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"I think, therefore I am" is entirely different from "thought, therefore existence". that's how sneaky Latin is, the first person in "cogito, ergo sum" is invisible but it's there and it'll getcha
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how is it different?
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one considers that which you regard as "I" to exist, which is always a catastrophic error
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So I guess you're reading "I" as meaning more than just "thing making this statement", which is probably a fair reading, but it can also be read as just "unknowable thing making this statement"
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that's how fast it leads you down the garden path: you've already presupposed the existence of things a thing isn't making the statement because there are no things, a process is making the statement
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your mom
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your confidence in me is inspiring
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solipsism is contingent on the existence of the self, though, so it seems like a subordinate catastrophe
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Mind body dualism. IDK if that falls under the same category. Really fuck Descartes so bad. Manages to be a Crypto Atheist and a Crypto Diest at the same time.
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If you follow his philosophy as a religious person, you'll find all spirituality reduced to soul-less materialism. If you follow his philosophy as an atheist, the end state of all existence becomes solipsism where you are the only being that can possibly exist.
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Either way, it takes the whole "Use science to prove god exists" problem that Medieval philosophy has, and starts to take it to the point where god is the ONLY thing that can possibly exist, and even secular science is tainted by this epistemological toxin.
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"Yes a single set of equations can and should explain all of reality, and it won't leave us wondering why there is more matter than antimatter or why more than one star exists."
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"thought implies existence" is true, "I think therefore I am" is not
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the experience of consciousness in material beings is unaccounted for, in particular why certain patterns of organization should be conscious while others should not be. Thought implies existence is a second order conclusion. The first thesis is existence implies thought.
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"Cogito, ergo sum" isn't a mistake but rather it's a territorial claim. The claim is "this matter, my matter, is conscious matter, and I MY OWN SELF am the king of this country". We are all little nations with a throne-sitting tyrant living under the illusion it is in charge.
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The chicken-egg dichotomy is an illusion.
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