I don't know about anyone else, but the fact that Descartes just sat down and logically doubted and contemplated his own existence blows my mind. The thought, feeling, or idea of "does anything we do in life matter if it's all going to eventually come to an end" usually crosses one's mind at at least once in person's life, but this was not Descartes intention. Descartes' main goal was to completely flip his entire perspective of what he thought was truth and reality. He would not accept anything of being truly real if it had the smallest amount of falsehood in it. He came out with the understanding that even if his body wasn't real, his soul/mind was because it contained the ability to think, and this generated Descartes' statement of "I think, therefore I am."
After Descartes had come to these conclusions, I really got to thinking for myself about his results. It makes things like The Matrix and The Truman Show seem so much more real than just a movie. I mean, Descartes did prove the existence of God logically, but to my knowledge the only thing he figured out for human kind is that we are "thinking things." These thoughts and can pose crazy and radical ideas, but they can still be in the realm of what Descartes proved to be true. For example, what if we are all just in a simulation, and our results and thoughts inside of the simulation dictated our result once we completed it.
I don't know about anyone else, but this passage took my mind to weird places. It made me feel like I was on a balance beam trying not to fall off into the unknown depths of concepts and realities. Did anyone else get messed up after reading this?
After Descartes had come to these conclusions, I really got to thinking for myself about his results. It makes things like The Matrix and The Truman Show seem so much more real than just a movie. I mean, Descartes did prove the existence of God logically, but to my knowledge the only thing he figured out for human kind is that we are "thinking things." These thoughts and can pose crazy and radical ideas, but they can still be in the realm of what Descartes proved to be true. For example, what if we are all just in a simulation, and our results and thoughts inside of the simulation dictated our result once we completed it.
I don't know about anyone else, but this passage took my mind to weird places. It made me feel like I was on a balance beam trying not to fall off into the unknown depths of concepts and realities. Did anyone else get messed up after reading this?
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