Naetha
Fledgling Freddie
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- Dec 22, 2003
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I’ve been thinking about stuff. This is usually a bad thing.
After the terrible Descartes joke, I was thinking about what Descartes actually said about philosophy. It is briefly summarised here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Descartes#Philosophical_work
Just got me pondering life, the universe and everything. Are our physical selves and the world around us figments of our own imaginations? Did we come into being a split second ago with ready formed memories? Are we figments of someone else’s imagination?
Who and what is “me”? Am I a symptom of electrical impulses passing through my brain? How much of what I consider to be “me” exists without my physical self? Do I have a soul? If I believe I do have a soul, then how does it exist? Was it created? If so, what was it created by?
It fucks your head up thinking about stuff like that, but I would like to hear other peoples’ opinions on life, existence and the universe.
After the terrible Descartes joke, I was thinking about what Descartes actually said about philosophy. It is briefly summarised here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Descartes#Philosophical_work
Just got me pondering life, the universe and everything. Are our physical selves and the world around us figments of our own imaginations? Did we come into being a split second ago with ready formed memories? Are we figments of someone else’s imagination?
Who and what is “me”? Am I a symptom of electrical impulses passing through my brain? How much of what I consider to be “me” exists without my physical self? Do I have a soul? If I believe I do have a soul, then how does it exist? Was it created? If so, what was it created by?
It fucks your head up thinking about stuff like that, but I would like to hear other peoples’ opinions on life, existence and the universe.