"I think, therefore I am" Explained | Descartes | Cogito Argument
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- A brief overview of René Descartes's "I think; therefore, I am" argument.
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Great explanation I totally understand
Hey man, I'd like to thank you for making this short, but very simple, comprehensible and well explained video!
Currently, I'm pulling a nighter (lol) in creating a presentation about Descartes' philosophy about the self which I believe centralizes on the Cogito argument. Hope you're doing well and you take care now!
I don’t understand why all of the comments and all of the commentary are focused on the thinking and not on the being
You can also be bsolutly certain about subjective experience as such. For example, you can't be absolutly certain that a glass you're seeng (or feeling) is actually there, but you can be absolutly certain that you're having the corresponding experience.
Enjoyed your explanation. I think what happened is Descartes was following ancient empirical teachings from the time of Plato and the Greeks. You prove your hypothesis one fact after another. So science must be based on the search for truth and the foundational building blocks of accepted methodology. You start off with something you know is a fact, "Cogito, ergo sum," and build from there. Often, a discussion that starts with a fact may transform into something else when new facts are discovered in the discussion. So your position has to have a certain amount of fluidity.
If I don't exist, why is my back so sore in the morning?
Love your video
Glad to hear it!!
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@@PhilosopherGames I am a follower of your page too, I found it weeks ago, and scrolled too far down for the memes 🤣
Hey thanks for making this video. I also just made a video about Descartes but I am unsure whether it's good enough. What do you think?
This is more of an axiom. It may be true or it may not but this is somthing we must maintain.
Why must we maintain it?
@@Andrew-dg7qm everything is in furtherance of a goal. I keep this axiom because I respect myself and believe I am real. Theres nothing saying that I need to be real but I choose to think that. Technicly you do not need to breath you do so because you want to stay alive.
@@updownleftrightasdw8423 Question your thoughts. Lean into “being” and you’ll find that letting go of the outcome will help you with your goals.
Thinking that we are doesn’t bring us into existence, it only furthers suffering. “Being” will not only connect you with yourself, but it will also help others around you, more than you can possibly imagine - the world is bigger than just yourself.
Great explanation. Just a curious question. How about animals? Since they are not necessarily thinking but acting on instinct, does he mean that such beings don't necessarily exists?
The argument doesn't imply that if you do not think, then you do not exist. Rather, if you can think, you can know that you exist. Note, this does not extend to knowing other humans even exist; the cogito argument only applies to knowing your own existence as a thinking thing.
I hope this helps to clarify things!
> How about animals? Since they are not necessarily thinking but acting on instinct, does he mean that such beings don't necessarily exists?
What makes you so convinced that animals don't think? They have brains just like us, their brains are active and fire neurons as they observe the world around them, and process information collected through often eyes and ears just like us. They attempt to communicate with mouths.
Humans are as much animals as anything else. We assume. Based on our observations. That is assuming animals exist. Maybe they don't. Maybe I don't know. Maybe this is all a dream and you're reading this youtube comment in your sleep. Perhaps your a brain in a jar being fed a simulated boring existence to keep you calm.
I think the point of I think, therefore I am, is not that all humans therefore exist because we think, but we ourselves personally exist, any other lifeform beyond ourselves personally is in doubt. I exist, because I know I think, I know I think because I'm thinking about thinking. You might exist but I can't know for sure. Likewise you can't know if I'm thinking or not by observing me, so for you, I might not exist.
The more we think, the less we exist. Don’t be afraid of being. It’s painful for the ego, but it’s the ego that holds us back.
Animals are great teachers. They have no ego. They simply are. They don’t have to suffer.
They don’t judge or get angry when their mother gets eaten by a crocodile. They grieve. They don’t judge.
And because they can be, they can be wise.
I am therefore I think.
A thinking being. It’s a good phrase
That is conscious Aatma or Soul who is eternal, neither was it born nor does it die. It is who tells "I am" and this completely makes sense to itself as it is conscious and do exists individually.
Nice vid.
Thanks!
Meanwhile, in a more PASSIVE sense: "i thinks, therefore i is."
Doubt you can say this in either LATIN, or French. Anyone? thx
I would of asked Desartes ; Is there a thinker of thoughts ?Is there a feeler of feelings ?
Good video nerrd
Hey, thanks. I consider being called a nerd among the highest compliments 😉
"Possibly more so now, thanks to a hit single"
Me: *Literally no idea which song they're talking about*
4 MINUTES FOR I AM
It means the Foundation in possession of my physical form does not know I have connected a link to the internet using [REDACTED].
What if our own capacity for reasoning is corrupted or controlled by some external factor for it to seem like they add up or be reasonable or accurate wherein, perhaps, they don't? Wouldn't that render any possible reasoning we can imagine false, including this famous phrase?
Edit: This question may seem to have an obvious answer to a few people, but the proof for "1 + 1 = 2" famously took about 300 pages, after all.
Yes, but the only point of this philosophical phrase is to point out to yourself the only thing you can know is that you exist as a thinking *thing* The form of this thing, the where, the when, the how, what external force may or may not be acting upon this consciousness of the *thinking thing* that is *you* all of these things are not only unknown, but unknowable. It is literally impossible for *you* to ever know any of these things, ever, the only thing *you* can know is that *you* exist as a thinking thing, because you are thinking. There is literally no possible proof for anything, except for *you* to know that *you* exist, because the only proof needed is that *you* exist by thinking about yourself. You have to exist to be able to doubt your existence.
I'm aware this was months ago, apologies if this was unclear and rambling.
@@paddycakes6244 Don’t apologize, thank you for your wisdom and insight and sharing your conscious experience with thing (me)
@@paddycakes6244 is it true?
@@wizels1403 knowledge comes from the mind. We don’t know where wisdom comes from, just like we can’t prove God exists. We can only know
Woow very good
Thanks!
As a doubter
I was here
I think I know, therefore i am at God's mercy.
I do not think. Therefore I am ..That is "the not" philosophy comes and goes "with".
"I think" a more accurate statement would be, "I make errors, therefore I am.".
therfore ur an error xD?
@@godhedsmanden Rookie mistake. Wholly political. Feel better?
@@hootiebubbabuddhabelly political?
@@hootiebubbabuddhabelly huh. But political doesn’t mean person
Antonio Bento: One sure fire way to test your assertion, would be to drop a 200 lb. rock on your foot and see if the rock actually exists and if the pain and damage to your foot is actually there or not. I believe you get the point without having to go through that test. God exists because the universe he DESIGNED, and created exists. Just examine closely one, single human cell and see the amazing organization that exists there. Organization in creation exists because the Grand Creator.
Have your religion but do not try to partake in philosophy
Non temere credere, est nervus sapientae.
Nothing I understood
thalapathy
just be aware of your thinking process watch your thoughts don't fight it then an intelligence might come into your life
Cogito ergo sum?
Really?
Prove it is you who is thinking!
Descartes's demon argument falls apart when one realizes that Descartes, himself, could be a thought the demon is having.
But that logic still proves Descartes exists, even if it's only as a thought.
@@JGcd001 Agreed. But not as that which is doing the thinking. Therefore, Descartes's conclusion is false. I think. Therefore. I am. Not, the demon thinks. Therefore I am.
@@derekcrockett7538 that's pointless. It still agrees with the premise that he exists. The statement dosent defeat or combat statements on us being as we think we are but that we think and therefore exist.
@@JGcd001 does it?
@Andrew-dg7qm it's been a while, and I'm not high enough for this lol, but I'll attempt my two cents:
If the logic "I think, therefore I am" is sufficient evidence of your existence, then you are literally saying thought (the "I think") is your conscious existence. Which means a thought counts as existence.
Granted, it does not identify WHAT you are, whether the thought of a demon or a physical entity. By having thought and identifying existence, whether you are a physical being or a thought of another creature or a program living a simulation, still means you exist. Identifying what you are is not the purpose of"I think, therefore I am", it is to identify that you exist, and the first step of a logical process to figure out who (or what) you are.
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Remember: God the Creator, thinks, therefore, he is, as well! And because he thinks, therefore, I am, as a result of God putting his thinking into action, and creating everything, seen and unseen in the universe!
well, that's just that theory of life being the god or the universe exploring itself or whatever, but well put I mean I like what u wrote, I mean I think u put it well together, phrased it well, like gj interconnecting that theory also adds up with the bibles ' we where created in gods image'
Actually we think that "God exists". And I doubt God's existence.
@@deeponchaudhuri106 The existence of God can be known by reason alone. You are a thinking rational being. Every rational being we know of has come from another rational being (your parents). Your parents came from other rational thinking beings and so on and so forth. We have never observed a rational thinking being coming into existence on its own, without proceeding from another intelligent being. Therefore, by acknowledging these empirical observations, we can conclude the human race proceeded from a higher intelligence than us. That would be the first step. Perhaps study and look into the 5 proofs by Thomas Aquinas, who is one of the most brilliant philosophers of the middle ages.
It seems that Descartes put forth a philosophy that essentially denies the existence of God, because he chooses to doubt the existence everything outside of himself, and only believes in his own existence. Descartes then goes on to echo what was said by God in Exodus and Christ in the gospel... "I AM". Whether or not Descartes intended this or not, he has elevated himself and all who hold firm to this philosophy to the status of God by saying "I AM" while doubting the existence of all reality and divinely inspired Truths.
@@Castropher It doesn’t deny the existence of God at all. If you think, then you exist. That doesn’t explain how you came to exist. The fact that you do exist means you cannot doubt you came from somewhere. That somewhere is from a rational being who also thinks and therefore exists, God.
thinking is spiritual, not physical.. . our body thinks for itself the heartbeats ..and we breathe in and then out without thinking that's what keeps us alive here on earth our bodies keep themselves going without much trouble. most of the time but when we get a glitch in the dayto day bodily functions function like clockwork. like being damaged by outside forces like getting in a car accident getting cancer or aids or even Carona.. or the body just gives you the finger and have a heart attack your body dies a heart attack death.... when your brain is dead you can't use it to think no more.. .... that's not the time you want to figure it out... thinking and our soul are different our soul thinks, therefore, we are we us everybody else.. then the judgment... ill be with Jesus..... .. he paid for my sins in full so i won't have to myself he paid for them how great is that !! someone paid for our sins while we were sinners because he loves the US enough to pay the price for our sins in full in hell so we won't have to ourselves....... i most certainly do deserve to be cast into hell because I'm guilty as hell. repent.. . .. that means to stop sinning.. believe that Jesus died for your sins with ALL of your heart and you shall be saved.. good luck..