"Cogito Ergo Sum" means "I think, therefore I am".
Suppose that someone is asleep, and I am a character in their dream, from my point of view I think and therefore exists. But really I am just part of someone's dream.
Is this criticism rational?
2006-11-03 13:33:37 · 4 answers · asked by paragon32288 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
What if you aren't thinking, but rather, you feel as if you are thinking? I suppose if you feel, that means you exist, is this always the case?
2006-11-03 15:39:03 · update #1
the criticism is rational, but it can be refuted. Even if you were to be a character in a person's dream, then you still exist as a thinking mind inside of a person's dream. If you have the consciousness to ask and to think, even if within someone's dream, then your mind, at least, must exist.
The same applies to feeling as thinking. In order to feel that you are thinking, something must interpret those feeling. That thing must exist.
2006-11-03 13:38:38 · answer #1 · answered by Edward 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
If you are a part of their dream, does that not mean that you yourself are dreaming?(That would create a nice little paradox wouldn't it)
And if you are dreaming do you exist(by the logical procession of Descartes doubts, yes you do exist and its not a dream)?
Also if you want to add that you perhaps "feel" as if you are thinking, perhaps you should define "feel" so we can get a better understanding of your usage of the word(basically I don't understand the diff. between "Thinking" and "feel as though im thinking" in the way you worded the addition)
2006-11-03 17:16:01 · answer #2 · answered by blaked882003 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
you have to add a bunch of quotation marks to make it work.
And in the end you'll still be making us suppose a non-existent thing's cognition has some bearing on reality.
2006-11-03 15:14:09 · answer #3 · answered by -.- 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
-----Yes. It is rational. At the lowest level, you can not prove anything. -----Jim
2006-11-03 13:54:53 · answer #4 · answered by James M 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋