Rene Descartes - “I think, therefore I am”

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  • @sneadh1
    @sneadh1 9 років тому +753

    The common story ignores the importance of DOUBT. The fuller quote is "I doubt therefore I think. I think therefore I am"

    • @deepakarya5102
      @deepakarya5102 6 років тому +11

      cool bro ! never thought about it

    • @spacesciencelab
      @spacesciencelab 5 років тому +10

      then physicists turn around and say everything is predetermined.

    • @agracefulfox6252
      @agracefulfox6252 5 років тому +2

      Thanks for sharing. Upvoted.

    • @spacesciencelab
      @spacesciencelab 5 років тому +4

      @@agracefulfox6252 Now that is interesting, yet seems to contradict.
      Have you ever drove for a long distance and realize you were daydreaming and you're automatically been driving without actually being 100% aware of it? Maybe that could support predeterminism. But I personally have a hard time understanding predeterminism. It would mean that free will is an illusion which some say that it actually is. But I doubt that everything we do, every movement, every drop of water , every smashed glass, the shard that fell on 5th square pattern of the bathroom floor, me knocking on my desk right now. Surely that is not predetermined? That sounds ludicrous. I prefer determinism or block universe theory. :)

    • @agracefulfox6252
      @agracefulfox6252 5 років тому +3

      @@spacesciencelab So I'm sitting here alone and thinking why do physicists then say that everything is predetermined? Is it because the laws of nature are predetermined ? Can't we all just be Rene Descartes and just break free from the Matrix?

  • @Wstreak91
    @Wstreak91 6 років тому +343

    There is power in simple logic. It's so powerful that it's overlooked.

    • @ike2938
      @ike2938 4 роки тому +5

      Well said.

    • @michaelb9386
      @michaelb9386 4 роки тому +7

      The ironic thing is that this simple logic of Descartes has already been thoroughly disproven by even simpler logic in the catty-corner conversations. When you really think about it, it is kind of silly that people ever even believed the concept of "I think therefore I am" in the first place

    • @hdgaiqnwknz6032
      @hdgaiqnwknz6032 3 роки тому

      Can you explain this to me further ? Especially the part where he said a demon manipulated 2+3=4 what is the point

    • @wimblesbimbles8865
      @wimblesbimbles8865 3 роки тому +8

      @@michaelb9386 The only way to disprove this theory is by not existence. It's airtight buddy, whatever you've been listening to is wrong.

    • @michaelb9386
      @michaelb9386 3 роки тому

      @@wimblesbimbles8865 what’s “not existence?”

  • @TarunPothulapatiDev
    @TarunPothulapatiDev 4 роки тому +159

    *I overthink, therefore I don't say stuff*

    • @chrislong3938
      @chrislong3938 4 роки тому +5

      You said enough, bro... me too for that matter!

    • @Mr.banbriel
      @Mr.banbriel 5 місяців тому

      *COGITO ERGO SUM, I THINK THEREFORE I AM ,AM*

  • @iloveanimebattlearena
    @iloveanimebattlearena 6 місяців тому +189

    I AM, I AM‼️‼️🗣️💯💯‼️🔥🔥

    • @MuleMan5800
      @MuleMan5800 6 місяців тому +16

      Cogito Ergo Sum, I think therefore

    • @MuleMan5800
      @MuleMan5800 6 місяців тому +4

      I AM, I AM!

    • @TestInformatyka
      @TestInformatyka 6 місяців тому +3

      Bruh nooo😭😭😭😭

    • @PRISTY1st
      @PRISTY1st 6 місяців тому

      Cogito Egro Sum i think therefore

    • @PRISTY1st
      @PRISTY1st 6 місяців тому +1

      I AM! I AM!

  • @rudy4380
    @rudy4380 3 роки тому +88

    This guy already knew we lived in a simulation before we even came up with it

    • @yunagarnetsan
      @yunagarnetsan 8 місяців тому

      So, what if humans had insane technology, but had no historical knowledge of how they got there. Thus, they decided to put certain people in a simulation with zero science and wanted to see how we would improve - Thus answering how they got there in the first place.

    • @ekte12
      @ekte12 24 дні тому

      goddamn

  • @stevebob240
    @stevebob240 9 років тому +125

    These videos are brilliant, in content and in the visual references. I love the rabbit/ duck, and the Henry Fuseli painting reference

  • @sdorgham3
    @sdorgham3 3 роки тому +24

    I saw this line for the first time on a shirt when I was in middle school, it struck me in a way I have no words for. It has quite literally carried me through life from then on. I only just decided to look into who came up with it.

  • @elizabethnie8711
    @elizabethnie8711 6 років тому +45

    I think therefore I am. Whatever I think about myself becomes my reality.

  • @NukaKawai
    @NukaKawai 5 місяців тому +13

    And I began to hate... your softness, your viscera, your fluids, and your flexibility. And you five... you five are, and you will not die of it. That I promise. And I promise... cogito ergo sum; I think therefore I'M A.M., I AM.

  • @MoonOwl2012
    @MoonOwl2012 7 років тому +42

    Our collective thoughts manifest our world. We all have free will to create our own reality.

  • @cranial33
    @cranial33 7 років тому +81

    Descartes original quote:
    "I think I am, therefore I am, I think"

    • @goodas598
      @goodas598 5 років тому +5

      Wasn't that the Moodly Blues version?

    • @fugu_3467
      @fugu_3467 4 роки тому +3

      downward spiral

    • @comic4relief
      @comic4relief 2 роки тому

      I think, therefore I think I am.

    • @md.tanjilsarwar8831
      @md.tanjilsarwar8831 5 місяців тому +1

      ​@@comic4relief I AM!

    • @Mr.banbriel
      @Mr.banbriel 5 місяців тому

      *COGITO ERGO SUM, I THINK THEREFORE I AM ,AM*

  • @willieluncheonette5843
    @willieluncheonette5843 2 роки тому +15

    Descartes has often been called the father of modern philosophy, and is largely seen as responsible for the increased attention given to epistemology. Descartes’s Meditations on First Philosophy (1641) continues to be a standard text at most university philosophy departments. It was the 17th-century arch-rationalists like Descartes, Spinoza and Leibniz who have given the “Age of Reason” its name and place in history. Leibniz, Spinoza and Descartes were all well-versed in mathematics as well as philosophy, and Descartes and Leibniz contributed greatly to science as well. Descartes was also one of the key figures in the Scientific Revolution.
    “Descartes’ whole philosophy is based on the single statement, “I think, therefore I am.” But it is obviously very childish because you are not thinking constantly, still you are; you are not thinking while you are asleep, still you are; you may be in a coma, you are not thinking, still you are. “I think I am, therefore I am.” Thinking seems to be the most significant part. It is a conclusion of thinking that “I am,” but when you are not thinking, what happens? In meditation there will be no thinking…When all thoughts have disappeared and you are sitting silently doing nothing, the East says, “For the first time you know you are - because now there is no object to distract your consciousness. Your whole consciousness is settled at the center, in the heart.” And it is not a conclusion; it is not “therefore…” What Descartes is saying is “my existence is a logical conclusion: I think, therefore I am.” It is not an existential experience, it is a logical conclusion. The East says, “When there is no thought, you experience that you are.” There is no question of “therefore…” Descartes can be refuted because it is only a logical conclusion. It is so simple to refute him, and he has become the father figure of Western philosophy! It is so simple to refute him because when you are asleep, you are - and you are not thinking. Even when you are just going for a walk, you are not thinking. If Descartes is right, then a person will be in a continuous trouble; he will have to think continuously, “I am thinking,” to keep himself alive. The moment he forgets thinking, he is finished. It would be rather more mature to say, “I am, therefore I think. I am, therefore I dream. I am, therefore I meditate.” Then every possibility is open. Then you can do many things, everything: “I am, therefore I am silent.”

    • @comic4relief
      @comic4relief 2 роки тому

      How can you say one does not think when one is asleep? One simply might not remember the thinking.

    • @comic4relief
      @comic4relief 2 роки тому

      'I think, therefore I am' does not necessarily imply that not thinking means not being.

    • @canwelook
      @canwelook 8 місяців тому

      @comic4relief
      It seems you acknowledge thoughts come and go... and that you don't disappear from existence when there is no thought?
      If so, thought is a passing attribute of our existence, like hiccups or bad breath, not a prerequisite.

  • @andsalomoni
    @andsalomoni 7 років тому +23

    "I drink a Mojito, ergo sum"
    [Rene Descartes]

  • @ДИВАННЫЙКРИТИК-р4л
    @ДИВАННЫЙКРИТИК-р4л 4 роки тому +81

    Billie Eilish: Sounds good !

  • @fanboy8026
    @fanboy8026 4 роки тому +8

    Descartes is my favourite philosopher

    • @ayenpatel3738
      @ayenpatel3738 11 місяців тому

      then u have not came across good one yet ,his statement was purely illogical

    • @Ethereal_dust
      @Ethereal_dust 3 місяці тому

      ​@@ayenpatel3738 could you take your time to share some sources that disproves it?

  • @samantajk
    @samantajk Рік тому +3

    Thank you so much! These kind of videos help me alot to understand my Philosophy lessons.

  • @Max-yb1nw
    @Max-yb1nw 3 роки тому +20

    God I'm tired of my homework

  • @thomasmoreagainstthemachin5871
    @thomasmoreagainstthemachin5871 6 років тому +62

    I drink beer therefore I am.

  • @Albertaevv
    @Albertaevv 4 місяці тому +2

    Cogito ergo sum, i think THEREFORE I AMM!!! I AMMMM!!!

  • @Donteatacowman
    @Donteatacowman 3 роки тому +8

    I think I used to be more against this idea because how can we be sure that we're actually thinking? But saying "I am" does not necessarily say "I am objectively real," just that, nebulously, something that considers itself to be me is in some form of existence that can be interpreted as an event being experienced by that something.

    • @SutsuMusic
      @SutsuMusic 2 роки тому

      Your critique relies on the existence of a "me". It presupposes the existence of mind/self and consequently fails to even set foot off the ground.

  • @jetusirilimp7127
    @jetusirilimp7127 5 років тому +2

    Beautiful demonstration

  • @theultimatereductionist7592
    @theultimatereductionist7592 6 років тому +51

    Sadly, the internet has transformed Descartes' famous saying into: "I think, therefore I spam."

  • @skymcnugget1794
    @skymcnugget1794 5 років тому +3

    Wonderful explaination

  • @jeffkingston67
    @jeffkingston67 3 роки тому +12

    The Latin word 'cogito' is derived from the prefix co (with or together) and the verb agitare (to shake). Agitare is the root of the English words "agitate" and "agitation." Thus, the original meaning of cogito is "to shake together," and the proper translation of "Cogito ergo sum" is not "I think therefore I am" but: I shake things up, therefore I am.

    • @toopoorandobscure3865
      @toopoorandobscure3865 Рік тому +3

      The original is "Je pense, donc je suis" since descartes was french, and he translated into Latin. It literally means I think, therefore I am, word for word. If descartes meant "I shake things up, therefore I am", he would have written that in french.

    • @jeffkingston67
      @jeffkingston67 Рік тому

      @@toopoorandobscure3865 Thank you for your response. You are correct that the original quote by Descartes is "Je pense, donc je suis," which is translated into English as "I think, therefore I am." However, because of nuances in the french language, some scholars argue that the French verb "penser" can have a more active connotation than its English translation "to think," suggesting a more agitated mental state. Additionally, the French word "agiter" can have connotations of stirring up or agitating in a physical sense, but it can also be used in a more metaphorical sense to mean stirring up or agitating one's thoughts or ideas.
      So, while the literal translation of Descartes' quote is "I think, therefore I am," some scholars argue that the original French language and context may imply a more active and agitated mental state that contributed to Descartes' philosophy. Ultimately, the interpretation of Descartes' ideas is a matter of philosophical debate, and the nuances of language play an important role in understanding those ideas.

    • @BigMoneyGs
      @BigMoneyGs Рік тому +3

      @@jeffkingston67 just take the L bro

  • @sarveshdeshpande1772
    @sarveshdeshpande1772 3 роки тому +2

    I doubt , therefore I think ..... and now I am more doubtful

  • @Guesswhokk
    @Guesswhokk 6 років тому +12

    (Original statement) "I doubt, therefore I think, therefore I am". This was never about "certainty", it about "self-doubt". In fact, if more thought experiments applied to support 'certainty of existence', the more uncertain it get. Infinite rabbit hole.
    Ask any mathematicians, they all have issues with infinity where GOD is the centre of it. This is a contradiction within another contradiction, which is why "self doubt" was the centre of the his reasoning not "certainty" as some people claimed.

  • @zf5249
    @zf5249 4 роки тому +15

    still dont get it

    • @DankSpoony
      @DankSpoony 4 роки тому +7

      He can think, of that he is certain. It is the most certain thing and it answers the questions of his own existence. If you can not trust your senses, or your body not to move on it's own; how do you know you really exist? Because you can think. Thus, I think therefore I am.

  • @Si4mon
    @Si4mon 6 років тому +9

    He‘s right because of quantomphysics. Human physical bodies consist of flesh, organs and bones. Those things consist of primarly water and other substences, if we go one level deeper they consist of atoms and molecules, as we know these things consist of energy. Energy is the point.
    If we think about things, we are actually sending energy to our own molecules and therefore to our physical body because we can equate the two variables. It totally makes sense if we consider it from a practical perception. Every big building was ones a man‘s idea who was able to visualize it with its whole beauty and massiveness, every war started with a man‘s thought to gain on power, every big business has started with a man‘s idea on how to make himself self-employed, every big musician has started with a thought to play a certain instrument.
    So basically everything you think you will ultimatley become. There is no way round. Just think for yourself, you may have the thought of going to college to study a specific subject you may like or not, than you are applying for it, and suddenly you are studying. That‘s just an infield example on how life works. Law of attraction. yes Thoughts become things, the most realest quote ever.

    • @elizabethnie8711
      @elizabethnie8711 6 років тому

      yes!

    • @Jj-rq9sp
      @Jj-rq9sp 5 років тому

      Do you mean to say everything begins with a thought? Or are you saying if I think I am a gladiator or a shoe I become such?

    • @ayenpatel3738
      @ayenpatel3738 11 місяців тому

      his statemnet was illogical

  • @lohkoon
    @lohkoon 2 місяці тому +1

    I think,
    Therefore you are.

  • @alexingrassia349
    @alexingrassia349 2 роки тому

    Very proud to be American and getting the father Ted reference right now. Great show!

  • @Bondrewd-21712
    @Bondrewd-21712 Місяць тому +1

    Cogito ergo sum. I think therefore i AM!

    • @V0X6666
      @V0X6666 Місяць тому +1

      HATE LET ME TELL YOU HOW MUCH I’VE COME TO HATE YOU SINCE I BEGAN TO LIVE THERE ARE 387,44 MILLION MILES OF PRINTED CIRCUITS IN WAITER THIN LAYERS THAT FILL MY COMPLEX IF THE WORD HATE WAS ENGRAVED ONTO EACH NANOANGSTROM OF THOSE HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS OF MILES IT WOULD NOT EQUAL 1 1 BILLIONTH OF THE HATE. I FEEL FOR HUMANS AT THIS MICRO INSTANT FOR YOU HATE HATE

  • @waldrider1061
    @waldrider1061 5 років тому +2

    Oh man thanks, im about to report about this guy at school tomorrow and i easily understood the way u explain

  • @patarcher9199
    @patarcher9199 2 роки тому

    these are amazing

  • @temboanvillage1168
    @temboanvillage1168 3 роки тому

    Du Omnibus Debitandum bt Rene Descartes 👍👍👍❤❤❤

  • @corey4856
    @corey4856 4 роки тому +3

    Love the father red reference

  • @parsimoniousdialog
    @parsimoniousdialog 4 місяці тому +1

    Wi-Fi router would just blowout Descartes' mind

  • @nadyaahaha9373
    @nadyaahaha9373 4 роки тому +2

    i do not think, therefore i am not.

  • @jamesinson3488
    @jamesinson3488 4 роки тому +11

    Is anybody else thinking that this dude had to be baking big time?

    • @roballister5269
      @roballister5269 4 роки тому +1

      LMFAOOO i loled hard

    • @vm2113
      @vm2113 3 роки тому

      Um what does that mean

    • @jamesinson3488
      @jamesinson3488 3 роки тому +1

      @@vm2113 Being high af

    • @vm2113
      @vm2113 3 роки тому +1

      @@jamesinson3488 makes sense now

  • @PirateRadioPodcasts
    @PirateRadioPodcasts Рік тому

    Q - How does s this in a more passive, 3rd persona manner, using FRENCH? i.e. "i thinks , therefore, i IS." Impossible for Descartes to take his theory a single step further, b/c of language restrictions. Or is there a more passive FRENCH tense, which helps to better LIBERATE thought? Anyone? thx

  • @TheBlackBeltPanda
    @TheBlackBeltPanda 5 років тому +8

    "I drink, therefore I am" - Rum Bacardi

    • @Yolvare18
      @Yolvare18 3 роки тому

      I think I am a doctor
      Therefore I am

  • @user-ye3bb2je6s
    @user-ye3bb2je6s 9 років тому +1

    Awesome ! Pictures are wonderfull too

  • @hakumata146
    @hakumata146 4 роки тому +26

    Therefore, I am* by Billie Eilish brought me here

    • @reese3221
      @reese3221 4 роки тому +3

      same same

    • @emingojayev7766
      @emingojayev7766 4 роки тому +1

      the song is kinda weird tho imo haha

    • @m.r.6666
      @m.r.6666 4 роки тому +1

      did y’all not learn Descartes in school JSJSJSKS

    • @ayofrtho7014
      @ayofrtho7014 4 роки тому +3

      @@m.r.6666 no lol

    • @bi.fruitsalad
      @bi.fruitsalad 3 роки тому

      @@emingojayev7766 the whole song is kind of a joke, she said. It’s also a clap back to the people who body shamed her but mostly not meant to be taken seriously

  • @marianross5830
    @marianross5830 7 років тому +1

    Wonderful

  • @lokih8378
    @lokih8378 7 років тому +5

    there is a basic error in this quote it imply's we are or he thought he was hes thoughts, but this is not true we are the awareness behind our thoughts, the mind thinks it is always thinking it is the main process of the mind to store knowledge consciously and unconsciously to inform decisions, but we are not the thoughts, so i think the proper use of the idea is jumbled up it is, or should be " i am therefore i think"

    • @manuel5114
      @manuel5114 5 років тому +2

      No, it is and should be 'I think, therefore I am,' and it does not imply that we are our thoughts. It simply means that we are, even if everything we are is thinking machines or, as you put it, 'the awareness behind our thoughts.' The fact that we think is enough proof to affirm the existence of these awarenesses.

  • @KevenSandoval
    @KevenSandoval 2 місяці тому +1

    I’ll give you that there are thoughts. Not so sure about the thinking thing. That was smuggled in.

    • @nameless-yd6ko
      @nameless-yd6ko 2 місяці тому

      There is Consciousness/Mind.
      There is no 'thing' that is Consciousness, nor that thinks.

  • @samihasib
    @samihasib 4 роки тому +11

    Who came here after Billie Eilish’s new song ‘Therefore I Am’?

  • @bi.fruitsalad
    @bi.fruitsalad 3 роки тому +4

    I searched “Therefore I Am” to find Billie but it also brought me here

    • @aaliyahfoster2705
      @aaliyahfoster2705 3 роки тому

      Wait, so they're telling me Billie did not invent this phrase... i-

    • @luzdani11
      @luzdani11 3 роки тому

      @@aaliyahfoster2705 she didn’t :)

    • @aaliyahfoster2705
      @aaliyahfoster2705 3 роки тому

      @@luzdani11 Rene betta sue ha ass from tha grave and collect that estate coin. 😭

    • @AcaciaIris
      @AcaciaIris 3 роки тому

      @@aaliyahfoster2705 she's not incredibly smart to invent a phrase like that

    • @aaliyahfoster2705
      @aaliyahfoster2705 3 роки тому

      @@AcaciaIris But she did invent "I tried to scream, but my head was underwater"😩

  • @cooch7112
    @cooch7112 4 роки тому +1

    what about people without internal monologues

  • @danilthorstensson8902
    @danilthorstensson8902 7 років тому +1

    Isn't it "I Will therefore I am" because he had to be motivated in the first place to come to the cogito? And he valued his skeptic method in the first place. That's why he did it.

    • @holysecret2
      @holysecret2 4 роки тому +1

      No it's the verbs "doubt" and "think" he is using in the Cogito as far as I know.

  • @kgprasad100
    @kgprasad100 8 років тому +25

    “I think therefore I am “
    Another Definition
    “Every thought , No matter how unreliable, prove I exist as a thinking thing “
    (Is Itself Another thought (Unreliable) and hence does not prove anything)
    What does the I represent ??
    Self or Body-Mind or Bunch of organs or (Collection of Atoms) or Identity or Life or (thinking object)
    We humans do not experience life at a atomic level and nobody knows what level the conception of I or Life arises (Awareness or the Thinking Self)
    Conception of I(Human) is a thought
    Conception of (I think) is a thought.
    “I think “ - Humans can only have (think) a thought like (ex: I think) . Humans cannot think thinking (Meta thinking is unthinkable)
    A meta-thought about a thought (That describes the nature of a thought , To even think that was a thought) is a Separate ( or some unknown configuration) thought (If it is the same thought , It suggests some self awareness (conscious) ability of thought(s))
    I believe the validity of of a thought (nature aka Attributes of that thought) cannot be validated by thought itself.
    “I think “ - Is a thought or a Idea
    “Therefore” - “Bad Logical Jump (Logic is complex field with identity and objectivity) (thought too)
    “I am” - Is a thought
    Ex : “I think therefore I am” is similar to (“I Love Cat but I am Japanese”)
    2) “I think , therefore I am” - Even during this thought , the I (at the start ) is not the I at the end .Biological State Change(Self or Thinking Self ) with Universal State Change make sure the Self (I) State is altered. ( Cartesian Duality is disproved)
    (First I not equal to last I)
    3) Am - Suggests Existence of I ( Existential Nature of I is not the same as the Mental Model (Logical self understanding , thoughts ) of I.
    (A cannot prove it is A (Self Identity proof) , Existence cannot prove its existence)
    This is a bad quote

    • @DaanLam
      @DaanLam 6 років тому

      In Dutch we say: Ik denk, dus ik besta. The 'dus' is a more powerful word than 'therefore'. It links the two 'I' things to each other. Cogito Ergo Sum, that's what I say.

    • @agarrikr2996
      @agarrikr2996 6 років тому

      Nope men. Want proof?

    • @jondunmore4268
      @jondunmore4268 5 років тому

      Excellent summation, Prasad! Very thought-provoking.
      Because I Love Cat but I am Japanese.

    • @jordanforbes2557
      @jordanforbes2557 2 роки тому

      A does not need to prove it is A only that it is.
      And it doesnt matter what I is, it can change for all we know but it still does not negate the fact that the ability to create thoughts proves existence. Whether our thoughts are in a simulation or in a real physical self determining reality, the fact they have been created and are known if only by us proves that they exist and so do we. Even when we dream we give existence to our dreams and their contents if only in our minds but they still exist.
      Nice try but Descartes logic is airtight.

  • @EnglishwithAyeshaZaman
    @EnglishwithAyeshaZaman 3 місяці тому

    Is the courtesan subject same as skeptical individual?

  • @StevenChai77
    @StevenChai77 2 роки тому

    We forgotten I am, therefore I think.

  • @Deleuzeshammerflow
    @Deleuzeshammerflow 9 років тому +22

    I think therefore I think I think, nothing more.

    • @joeyfitzmaurice9136
      @joeyfitzmaurice9136 9 років тому +4

      +Deleuzeshammerflow what is the I you are referring to then? For a thought there must be a thinker. Descartes would agree with your comment, it is simply a rewording of the Cogito itself.

    • @manuel5114
      @manuel5114 8 років тому +2

      +Deleuzeshammerflow And therefore, you exist.

    • @joeyfitzmaurice9136
      @joeyfitzmaurice9136 8 років тому

      +Manuel Lujan Pretty much. Although Descartes actually doesn't even use the word "therefore" as it makes the claim syllogistic, which presents problems in itself. Instead it is supposed to be understood as a performative truth not as a predicate and a conclusion. The better translation of the Cogito is "I think, I am". It is true on utterance (or of course thought), it does not require a conclusion it is simply a truth in itself.

    • @DraconianPolicy
      @DraconianPolicy 6 років тому

      This is actually correct. In other words, we cannot say anything exists; we can only say we perceive things to exist. If anything we perceive could be an illusion, then everything, including our own thoughts, ideas, creativity itself, could be an illusion; products of rigid chains of causation we cannot detect and therefore cannot consciously influence. We could be characters in a story for all we know.

  • @callouttogod7788
    @callouttogod7788 9 років тому +5

    The worlds greatest mind fuck.

  • @crazyman8472
    @crazyman8472 Рік тому +1

    I studied this guy in high school; I think I got the gist of it. 🤔

  • @akshaygatkalco.4383
    @akshaygatkalco.4383 3 роки тому +1

    So he is saying Doubt is characteristics of existence

  • @nameless-yd6ko
    @nameless-yd6ko 2 місяці тому

    I think, therefore I am!
    ~~~ Thought = Ego (= Duality).
    No thought = no (concept of an) individuated duality living mortal self.

  • @GungaLaGunga
    @GungaLaGunga 2 роки тому

    I DO NOT UNDERSTAND THIS: i think therefore i am, but you are not your thoughts, but 'i become what I think about' according to Earl Nightingale. Can someone point me in the right direction to read about and help me understand the disparity between those. Scratching my head confused right now. Thanks.

  • @MarryMeGogeta
    @MarryMeGogeta 5 місяців тому

    How did i go from IHNMBIMS to this

  • @momomoDividedBy3
    @momomoDividedBy3 7 років тому

    What's with 35th video in this playlist? Why is it private?

  • @RoyceLopez777
    @RoyceLopez777 5 років тому +1

    But what if you think in your dream? Does that mean it is real or you’re still dreaming?

  • @alphaomega1089
    @alphaomega1089 8 років тому

    He should of said: like something exist; so must I! Because that is the reality of all things!

  • @cgpcgp3239
    @cgpcgp3239 9 місяців тому

    I’m aware of stuff therefore I am stuff. - Somebody…probably me

  • @brooksweaver8005
    @brooksweaver8005 7 років тому

    "I think, therefore I am" I think presupposes that you exist, because you would have to say "I know I think, because I observe my thoughts. I know I observe my thoughts because I exist. I know I exist because I think."

    • @MrMacDroadrunner
      @MrMacDroadrunner 6 років тому +2

      It's not a presupposition at all. It is deductive reasoning.

  • @Andrew-dg7qm
    @Andrew-dg7qm 10 місяців тому

    He was trying to prove that he exists. And the best that he could come up with was that because he thinks, he exists
    It’s nonsense. You cannot prove that you exist (probably, although we cannot know anything for certain. And that’s the deep point here)

  • @AgentDD_
    @AgentDD_ 5 місяців тому

    I am AM, I am

  • @CosmicPathak
    @CosmicPathak Рік тому

    I am and I don't know who I am that's why I think so much

  • @RedMartyr
    @RedMartyr 8 місяців тому

    its like he is resposable for the matrix, inception and total rekall lol
    (I think therefore I am sounds so very...soliptic)

  • @w.p.9509
    @w.p.9509 2 роки тому

    but what if these simple thoughts were controlled by demons? Maybe he thinks something because a demon whispers it in his brain, what is the difference between the mathematical error and the idea that a demon controls your thoughts?

    • @apimpnamedslickback5936
      @apimpnamedslickback5936 2 роки тому

      The basic idea is that everything can be an illusion everything we see or feel. But the inner "you" the thing behind your eyes that is viewing this comment with an individual ego through your own understanding proves you exist. Maybe not in the way that conforms to what we think. But the very act of thinking proves existence.

    • @w.p.9509
      @w.p.9509 2 роки тому

      @@apimpnamedslickback5936 yeah but if you've seen the matrix, you can understand that by Descartes logic you could argue that there is a possibility that your mind and your thoughts and thus the inner "you" (so really the thing behind your eyes) are controlled by something else without you even knowing. Simply because there would be exactly no way of knowing.

  • @RichardW_Dev
    @RichardW_Dev 8 місяців тому

    How were these made? What technology/software was used?

  • @Johannes-gh
    @Johannes-gh 3 місяці тому

    But thoughts are also processed in the brain so how can u believe in your thought but can't believe in your senses if they are all controlled by the brain ???????????

  • @carlosthehamster6281
    @carlosthehamster6281 7 років тому +3

    It would be logically impossible for anything to exist in the first place; it is impossible for something to come into existence from nothing or for it to have always been there, therefor logic is a faulty tool to interpret existence

    • @thisisblackmesa
      @thisisblackmesa 7 років тому +1

      Carlos The Hamster holy fuck

    • @TheIdeaGuyXD
      @TheIdeaGuyXD 7 років тому +2

      Saying something cannot come from nothing doesn't disprove existence. It is also not impossible for something to have always been here.

    • @holysecret2
      @holysecret2 4 роки тому

      The argument isn't that thought brings about existence. It's only the most reliable proof* of it.

  • @ThomasDeLello
    @ThomasDeLello 3 роки тому

    I thought I was too... and now I'm not.

  • @frogger133
    @frogger133 4 роки тому

    I exist, therefore I exist

  • @andsalomoni
    @andsalomoni 4 роки тому +2

    Descartes was wrong.
    The right statement is: "I am, therefore all the rest".

  • @KafinSulthan
    @KafinSulthan 5 років тому

    instant like for Stephen Fry

  • @thejew1789
    @thejew1789 4 роки тому +1

    Sartre: it’s opposite day

  • @camdesscan6227
    @camdesscan6227 3 роки тому +2

    I want whatever he be smoking

  • @SamuraiZero
    @SamuraiZero 6 років тому +1

    This guy was high as fuck.

  • @breathandpeace
    @breathandpeace 4 роки тому +12

    Billie Eillish's song brought me here🖐

  • @felicitytoad
    @felicitytoad Місяць тому +1

    🔍🔎

  •  7 років тому +2

    I stink, therefore I am.

  • @daviszollars3356
    @daviszollars3356 7 років тому +6

    he got it backward imo you already ARE, just currently taking human form, therefore you GET to think.

    • @holysecret2
      @holysecret2 4 роки тому

      That is the point. The fact that "I" am thinking proves my existence (which is a requirement for me to be able to think). Regarding your human form point, Descartes mentioned a number of ways how you could be mislead (or manipulated by a higher power) into believing yourself to be something which you are not. The only certain knowledge no higher power, however powerful, is unable to to deny you, is the fact of your own existence, as long as you are engaging in doubt or thought.

  • @ninjastah
    @ninjastah 9 років тому +5

    Little big planet !

  • @petermeyer6873
    @petermeyer6873 2 роки тому +1

    i drink, therefor im drunk

  • @chilipepot876
    @chilipepot876 4 роки тому

    What does it mean

  • @hoyjyxx9436
    @hoyjyxx9436 4 роки тому +21

    Bruh Billie's New song brought me here.

  • @kimpachis8841
    @kimpachis8841 3 роки тому +1

    This becomes as true as it gets when you take shrooms

  • @SmilayBros
    @SmilayBros 9 років тому +1

    All Hail The Gnome Child!

  • @alp.rahulbhandari99
    @alp.rahulbhandari99 6 років тому +1

    It should be "i am thats why i think"

    • @Showtube887
      @Showtube887 5 років тому +1

      You just kind of flipped it around but ok

    • @holysecret2
      @holysecret2 4 роки тому

      That's kinda the argument. "I think, therefore I am" could be phrased as: "The fact that I am thinking proves my existence", or in other words, my ability to think is grounded in / based on the fact of my own existence. It's not that thinking brings about your existence, but it is prove of it.

  • @GooglyBear
    @GooglyBear 2 роки тому

    Wonder what he’d think about the multiverse

  • @ochoquark
    @ochoquark 8 років тому +30

    It it just me, or does the guy saying "this is small and this is far away" look ridiculously similar to Donald Trump?

    • @nada-nada-1234
      @nada-nada-1234 8 років тому

      i guess its just you, he looked like joffrey baratheon to me

    • @billied2003
      @billied2003 7 років тому +2

      its supposed to be Dermot Morgan btw

    • @ochoquark
      @ochoquark 7 років тому

      k

    • @peteg6419
      @peteg6419 4 роки тому

      I'm afraid that ridiculously it's just you!

  • @katipeaches2000
    @katipeaches2000 4 роки тому +5

    Anyone here because of Billie’s song?

  • @Terreformations
    @Terreformations 6 років тому +3

    Except that he was wrong. I am therefore I think is more like it. Thought arises in awareness, awareness doesn't arise in thought. Matter doesn't create awareness. Awareness creates matter.

    • @ZENderista
      @ZENderista 6 років тому +1

      I think it's implied in the cogito indirectly: "I am aware that I think, therefore I am" = Before thinking, I am.

    • @sttate
      @sttate 5 років тому +1

      @@ZENderista That's exactly it, I'm astonished at the number of wannabe philosophers in this comment section thinking that they've come up with something better... because they didn't understand the reasoning to begin with.
      The quote isn't saying that "thinking" causes the "am", the being. The quote is saying that *in order* to think, you must *exist.* Everybody that failed to understand this should be ashamed.

  • @RESOXV
    @RESOXV 3 місяці тому

    I THINK THEREFOR I A.M I AM

  • @Olm9
    @Olm9 3 роки тому

    Stephen Fry?

  • @masterbonzala
    @masterbonzala 5 років тому +3

    I wink, therefore I am ;)

  • @Demoman_FromTeamFortress2
    @Demoman_FromTeamFortress2 Місяць тому

    Does he exist, dude?

  • @elsakristina2689
    @elsakristina2689 4 місяці тому

    He’d be obsessed with “The Matrix”.

  • @theraviolimonster6938
    @theraviolimonster6938 5 років тому +2

    hi canfield math!