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by - retroglide - on April 6th, 2007

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What does the phrase "We think, therefore we are," mean to you?

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  • by -O-uknow on April 7th, 2007

    -O-uknow

    A lot of people who barely are.

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  • by Nelson - Jetpacking from bed on August 30th, 2007

    Nelson - Jetpacking from bed

    Not a stupid question, just a question you didn't know the answer to at the time.

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  • by Nelson - Jetpacking from bed on August 30th, 2007

    Nelson - Jetpacking from bed

    Rene Decarte's existential method of proving that we create our own exsistance. "I think therefore I am"

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  • by amanda on April 11th, 2007

    amanda

    a lot of theories and situations have been presented to prove that our thought process is the main thing that forms us .....but i am yet to think that it is true

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  • by Anon on April 7th, 2007

    Anon

    I think Descartes was trying to prove that he really existed and was not a figment of his imagination or a trick of some evil God's imagination. He said something to the extent that the ability to think you exist even if you were mistaken was proof that you existed enough to be wrong.
    Now I'm even confused and I wrote it!

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  • by anon on April 6th, 2007

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    If you mean the ancient quote "I think, therefore I am," it was originally a declaration that "consciousness = being." But it was in a thesis about living "in the present," since our thoughts, right now, are the only things we can control. Like, "I think I'm happy, so I am happy."

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  • by American idle on April 6th, 2007

    American idle

    Hmmm...I guess that's what makes us humans!

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  • by Stableboy on April 6th, 2007

    Stableboy

    It means my personality has fragmented into more than one individual, all of whom are confused about thinking and being.

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  • by Empress of Everything Ever on April 6th, 2007

    Empress of Everything Ever

    It means there are more that one of me and we are.....lost? Pregnant? In love? In town? Confused?

    Anyway, we are! So there.... :-P

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  • by JamesD on April 6th, 2007

    JamesD

    I think it's proof that we're alive. having conscious thoughts, and existing, in our own minds. Cogito ergo sum.

    James D. ;-)

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  • by pcorr99 on April 6th, 2007

    pcorr99

    It reaffirms im not just a character in a TV show, I think about what im doing and make consious decisions about what I do.

    I am real not just following a script

    [EDIT] Sometimes it might still feel like a script;)

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  • by Barcaluv on April 6th, 2007

    Barcaluv

    For me it means that thinking involves the questioning of our own existence. By thinking we achieve a sense of identity that separates us from inanimate objects.

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  • by Patti jo on April 6th, 2007

    Patti jo

    You are what you think you are - which you can change that if it's unhealthy or savor it if it's healthy

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  • by sleidman on April 6th, 2007

    sleidman

    The human ability to have an imagination and consousness makes us different from all other beings.

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  • by toucans on August 30th, 2007

    toucans

    I've always thought it was sort of different...

    How I think things are defines how and what they are to me. E.g. I think it is an apple, therefore it is.

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