My friend 'Enlightened LORIS tells me that if you think, therefore you are, do you think there's any truth in

Question

this?

Answer 1

Lemur...what exactly are you doing? :)

Answer 2

Man, some here are missing the point. It's not about if something exists, the phrase means we have come to the realization that we exist. Rocks and chairs haven't done that

Answer 3

You are what you think you are.

Example: Someone says something to me that I consider insulting or hurtful. I think I am insulted, therefore I am insulted. Now, I do have another alternative in how I "fill in the blanks". I think I am amused, therefore I am amused. Whichever thought I choose is the one that carries over into the "I AM".

Answer 4

No this is a cheap rip off of the saying I do therefore I am.

Answer 5

Dead bodies do not think, but the exist. Brain dead individuals are alive and existing but not thinking. Rocks have no nervous systems but they exist.

I'd say that I think therefore I am is not a good arguement.

Answer 6

Yes, if he means it in the same sense as Descartes. Any entity that is capable of thinking definitely exists.

EDIT:
Pirate: Things that exist but don't think don't invalidate this statement. They invalidate its converse.

Answer 7

Usually it follows that you are or tend to become what you think if you fulfill the requirements of what you think you are.

I can think myself a plumber all I want but unless I learn how to do what plumbers do I ain't no plumber.

Answer 8

I think that you are, therefor you are.

Answer 9

A chair doesn't think.

Answer 10

There's a Jewish proverb that reads:
"As he thinks in his heart, so he is."
Works for me!