Descartes

Descartes convinced himself that nothing really existed, our bodies our friends all we know and love. He believes that all of the outside stimuli are some how not naturally put in ones mind to create a false sense of reality. Would this make Descartes nonexistent as well as his body and mind? Not necessarily, it wouldn’t because he doubts existence and how can there be doubt if there isn’t anybody to do the doubting. In other words in order to believe in the falseness of the entire universe, one still has to exist in order to believe. And believe can only exist

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It is only when one quiets his mind when he can see the whole real picture. Descartes believed that the demon could deceive him about anything except for his own existence. If only our mind existed then where is our mind? If we are living in a fake reality our minds could be sitting in a tank somewhere or something to that effect.

Descartes supposed that there was a demon, an evil one that was spending all of its time deceiving him and everyone else in the world. We all know the names of all of the five finger; the thumb, the pointer, the middle finger, the ring finger and the pinky. Descartes seemed to have a perverse imagination to believe an peripheral demon is the root of all of the false perception. If that were the case then we wouldn’t have to look to a demon for our perception fallacies, our own mind could be the root of our false reality. But how come we do not have names for all the five toes.

Buddhist monks practice “Zaz zen” sitting meditation to quiet their racing minds, in order to reach enlightenment. One of the most frustrating things about Descartes’ theory is that there is no true way to find out if one is being deceived or not. It denies the existence of the beach it self, just because it would be too complicated to sort our the whole beach. Because how can he be deceived if he does not exist. Perhaps he deceives Descartes about everything else. Because our mind has been taught to only distinguish between objects that the mind thinks are important. The demon would plant illusions in his and everybody’s head to make us believe that we are seeing, touching, tasting, hearing, and smelling, things that are not really there or completely different for what our human mind perceives.

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