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this post was submitted on 21 Sep 2024
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This is the only absolute truth, for each of us. I may be a brain in a vat being fed false stimuli. I may be in a grand computer simulation. I may be a resident of Plato's Cave. Everything I believe or guess about the world around me may be an illusion. But I do know that I think, and therefore, in some sense, I am.
The part I take issue with this is the "I" or "self". That, I argue is an illusion. There is no centre to consciousness. There's just consciousness. The correct saying would be "thinking is occuring"
Of course, you can think of consciousness as analogous to excitation of a field, and, like the electromagnetic field or gravitational field, there is no center, and everything is interconnected. And yet, like every particle is ultimately a wave in disguise, we can still meaningfully talk about individual particles, because some waves do behave that way sometimes.
An individual consciousness is particle-like. As a shorthand for "this relatively independent packet of consciousness which has measurable distinctiveness from other packets and does not freely share perceptions or memories with them," it's often more practical just to say "I" instead.
Well learn Latin then. It just translates poorly into English.
A more literal translation of "Cogito ergo sum" would be "consciousness, thus, existence"