Re:A Neuroscientist’s Theory of How Networks Become Consciou...
by stiff on Thursday October 30, 2014 @01:41AM
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> > That I experience my existence is an undeniable fact. One can only infer facts about the universe, such as physics, indirectly, but the one thing I’m utterly certain of is that I am experiencing existence.
> It's really astonishing to me that he words it this way, because independently I have thought almost exactly the same thing for a long time.
This is just the famous "cogito ergo sum" of Descartes, dating back to the 17th century. A significant piece of epistemology is devoted to criticizing this reasoning:
> It's really astonishing to me that he words it this way, because independently I have thought almost exactly the same thing for a long time.
This is just the famous "cogito ergo sum" of Descartes, dating back to the 17th century. A significant piece of epistemology is devoted to criticizing this reasoning:
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/descartes-epistemology/#4