What it means to me now:Now "I think, Therfore I am" doesn't really mean any more to me than it has in the past. In Descartes' mind it meant because he thinks, he exist, meaning if you can think you can exist, so does this mean that if something can't think, it can't exist? Time does not think so does it therefore not exist? Since thinking is an irrefutable truth and what is percieved can be doubted, if I turn in homework and someone says it's blank and incomplete, is it incomplete? Is their perception wrong? Is authority wrong for influencing what we perceive as incomplete? Rene Descartes quote really only means something when one questions whether or not they are dreaming, but people generally know when they are dreaming or awake (pain in a dream does not effect one's actual body because the feeling is gone when they wake up). The quote it self is a bit weird and I don't think it was really thoughout to apply to things such as time, it was only Descartes personal beleif on how he could know if he was awake or dreaming.
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