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Does descartes cogito serve it's intended role today? defend your answer

>> No.8709776

>>8709691
It's going to run into issues with AI

>> No.8710029
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8710029

>>8709776
I think therefore I AM

>> No.8711441

Brainlets don't think
Therefore, they aren't

>> No.8712004

>>8709691
Give her the D

>> No.8712703

>>8709691
What do you think was its intended role? To attempt to rationalise? Parody empiricism? I think Descartes' work is really just a "take what you like I don't give a fuck" philosophy, and not everyone is going to find "cogito ergo sum" to be useful in their own outlooks of life, unironically what >>8711441 said.

>> No.8712709

If you actually read meditations you will quickly see that most of his writing was just trying to appease the clergy that he was terrified of. I mean some of his defenses of God and "humility" made me feel like he was terrified of being executed by the church.

I can't tell what I am supposed to take seriously and what he added to appease his contemporaries.

>> No.8712721

>>8709691
Mental states may exist independently of past mental states, therefore the act of doubt does not necessarily entail the existence of one's self.