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Offlinebudsmoke
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I only exist because I think I exist..What book?
    #8019489 - 02/13/08 08:32 PM (15 years, 11 months ago)

Does anyone know what book or theory says that you only exist because you think you exist, and that if you stop thinking you will cease to exist? They talk about it on in an episode of souhpark, I think it was the jewbaree episode.


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Re: I only exist because I think I exist..What book? [Re: budsmoke]
    #8019500 - 02/13/08 08:35 PM (15 years, 11 months ago)

descartes. i think therefore i am.


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Re: I only exist because I think I exist..What book? [Re: budsmoke]
    #8019501 - 02/13/08 08:35 PM (15 years, 11 months ago)

I think that was an enlightenment philosopher. Can't remember which one off the top of my head, maybe descartes.

edit: oh cool i was right.


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Re: I only exist because I think I exist..What book? [Re: budsmoke]
    #8019507 - 02/13/08 08:36 PM (15 years, 11 months ago)

sounds like existentialism

try Jean-Paul Sartre's Being and Nothingness. I always found reading existentialist type stuff really empowering


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Re: I only exist because I think I exist..What book? [Re: maggotz]
    #8019536 - 02/13/08 08:42 PM (15 years, 11 months ago)

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descartes. i think therefore i am.




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Re: I only exist because I think I exist..What book? [Re: Robo]
    #8019580 - 02/13/08 08:50 PM (15 years, 11 months ago)

Of course you only exist because you think you do, because if you thought you honestly didn't exist, you wouldn't.


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Re: I only exist because I think I exist..What book? [Re: budsmoke]
    #8019616 - 02/13/08 08:58 PM (15 years, 11 months ago)

It's not Descartes. His "I think, therefore I am" doesn't imply that if one doesn't think they do not exist. He just used it to gain one piece of "certain" knowledge that would be so even if all existence was a lie, trick or dream.

Are you sure the South Park episode is actually talking about a real book?


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