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I have looked up his details on Wikipedia and run them through yet another of my infallible Android apps which shows almost conclusively that he did not exist and therefore his non existent comments have no validity.
PS Sorry to have to tell you but the App says you do not exist either.
PPS Hang on! it says I do not
He originally said 'Je pense, donc Je suis' cos he was a Frog
I have looked up his details on Wikipedia and run them through yet another of my infallible Android apps which shows almost conclusively that he did not exist and therefore his non existent comments have no validity.
PS Sorry to have to tell you but the App says you do not exist either.
PPS Hang on! it says I do not
*if* you suppose that mankind will someday acquire the resources & knowhow to run a simulation to the detail needed, AND you suppose that there is a decent chance that they would do so (create such a simulation - that is), then logic dictates that we are almost certainly simulations right now.
I can't decide if that idea sucks or if it simply stops some awkward conversations surrounding my life if I happen to meet a diety after death.
Descartes was wrong to say cogito ergo sum according to his own fundamental principle of systematic doubt. To say "I think, therefore I am" presupposes that there needs to be an "I" to be doing the thinking. If he'd continued applying systematic doubt he would have doubted that presupposition, and been left with "There exists a thought".
Deep stuff there NF.
As usual I prefer a more pragmatic philosophy. If I think I exist, does it f* matter if I really do or not?
PS If you start studying philosophy and begin to doubt that you really exist, perhaps you will cease to do so. Keep clear.
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