I’ve always wondered about the meaning of the Latin phrase, “Cogito, ergo sum.
Ive often wondered the meaning of the Latin phrase, Cogito, ergo sum. After spending a lot of time thinking about it, I had my first, possibly definitive answer yesterday when I realized that Cogito itself doesn’t mean “I think therefore I am.” It means “I think therefore I am” or “I am therefore I think.
I know what you’re thinking, “but Cogito also means, my thoughts are my own.” And I can admit that I have been guilty of this myself. And in fact, I think I was trying to say that in my previous post, because I think the word itself is a bit of a misnomer. When I was writing the post, I was trying to be specific. As in, I was describing the essence of the phrase.
Cogito is an amnesiac who has been trapped in an amnesiac’s mind for a long time. He has been trapped in an amnesiac’s mind for a long time. He has been trapped in an amnesiac’s mind for a long time. He has been trapped in an amnesiac’s mind for a long time.
In the first instance, the person is stuck in an amnesiacs mind. In the second, it’s the person having been stuck in an amnesiacs mind who is stuck in an amnesiacs mind. That’s a little weird. I would have to think of something.
You could say that Cogito is the philosopher who can’t remember who he is. The second person is the one who is stuck having been stuck in an amnesiacs mind for a long time. Its in the first instance that its the amnesiac who is stuck in an amnesiacs mind. Its the amnesiac who is stuck in an amnesiacs mind who is stuck in an amnesiacs mind. Thats a little weird.
Its one of the most famous quotes in the philosophy of mind. “An elephant can’t choose its own path. The path of an elephant is determined.
Cogito also appears in the works of Descartes, Wittgenstein, and Kant. Of course, because this quote is so famous, most philosophers think it’s a very famous quote that deserves to be quoted. But I think the quote itself is more of a metaphor.
The real reason for the quote is that it is very common. So when you get off the bedside table that you’ve slept in for five minutes, you have to stop and think about something else. You can’t really lose sight of the fact that it’s really something you would want to be doing. Your mind keeps jumping over things and is always trying to make your mind think about something else. That’s an entirely different way of saying that you should make your mind think about something else.
I’m just saying that most people can’t really be that stupid. When you wake up in your bed, you’re always in the bathroom. You have to sit there and think about something else. You have to listen to your brain telling you the same thing every time. You cannot make it sound that way, and you cant really do that.
