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It's bullshit because it uses logic, and logic is a property of existence.

WRT Apotheosis, "I think therefore I am" is just a bad translation of "cognito ergo sum," which doesn't include any mention of self at all.

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"Cognito," and "sum," are the first person singular forms of "to think" and "to be" in the present tense, no?

Ergo, "Cognito ergo sum" means literally "I think therefore I am." Just because Latin leaves out the pronoun you think the self is not mentioned? It is not a crappy translation in the slightest, and of course it mentions self.

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i'm not saying reality is the offspring of the mind, but that our perception of reality is tied to the mind and that nothing around us may be real

that's a pretty basic philosophical assumption, the notion that shit around us might not be there. descartes tried to answer this by saying "well at least i'm here, because i think", and i'm here telling you that that's stupid because you can think you're here but you're not and don't even exist, not unlike a dissociated personality.

the point is that as long as it's possible for you not to be, you can't say "i think thus i am" without taking a leap of faith, ergo, it's logically flawed. that's not the same as incorrect, just, not a good logical argument. it's a good axiom though, as in, a good thing that we're not sure of but we prefer to assume is true for the purposes of this experiment. namely, life

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If nothing around you is real, why are you trying to discuss? If I am nothing more than a figment of your imagination, trying to argue rational presupposes existence.

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"The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the
shoreline of wonder" (Ralph W. Sockman)

and if cogito ergo sum requires self then it's more of an issue for me because identity has to be involved somehow

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i don't think you are, but you could be.

and if cogito ergo sum requires self then it's more of an issue for me because identity has to be involved somehow

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As long as something exists to think, that something must have a self, whatever that self is.
I can not think in the first person third person [thinking "I" for someone else]

As long as there is thought, there is something to think it; as long as there is something to think it, there is self.

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Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful.It's the transition
that's troublesome.   --Isaac Asimov