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Therefore I Am

Song of the Day 07/12/2022

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Jul 12, 2022
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Therefore I Am by Billie Eilish

I’ve always been somewhat hostile to the Cartesian cogito, ‘I think therefore I am.’ Surely the idea of personal consciousness is not enough to define whether or not we really exist. For Descartes, it isn’t an idea that would prove existence, not even an observation, merely just a thought, such as ‘I’m a party animal,’ or …

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