this post was submitted on 10 Jul 2023
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[–] yetAnotherUser@feddit.de 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

thinking => existence <=/=> existence => thinking

smh get your propositional calculus in order

[–] CheeseToastie@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

Fun fact, Descartes was trampled to death by a runaway horse. Hence the phrase "putting Descartes before the horse"

[–] Lux@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 1 year ago

I know it's a joke, but "I think, therfore I am" just means that you can be sure of your own existence, it doesn't mean anything for other people/things.

And they're very powerful!

[–] Zyansheep@lemmy.fmhy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Decartes when you don't define what it means to think:

Does ChatGPT exist?

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