Descartes

Around 1641 Descartes convinced himself that nothing really existed “no sky, no earth, no minds, no bodies,” (Hospers 71) so would this make him nonexistent? No it wouldn’t because he doubts and how can there be doubt if there isn’t anybody to do the doubting. Now that he proved that the mind existed then he could doubt everything else, such as what we saw, heard, tasted, felt, and smelled. Descartes supposed that there was a demon that was spending all of its time deceiving him and everyone else. The demon would plant illusions in his and everybody’s head to make us believe that we are seeing, touching, tasting, hearing, and smelling, it may even

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The only thing that was real was everyone’s mind That movie agrees with Descartes and says at least the mind exist. be deceiving us into thinking that we have a body.

Another theory is that everyone is part if one big mind, we are all created by a huge mind, almost like a book, and we are the characters. instruct/phil302/philosophers/descartes. Why is that so far fetched why can’t they exist, Descartes would say that I was being deceived still yet again. I feel that Descartes was complicating matters by questioning the existence of everything, because if only one’s mind exists then one is inclined to wonder where does this mind exist if we are living in this false reality. ” (Hospers 72)

One of the most frustrating things about Descartes’ theory is that there is no true way to find out if one is being deceived. Descartes felt that we were being deceived, but how can we be deceived if we can’t prove that we are being deceived, if you told me that you won the lottery of £25million then I would be able to find out that I was being deceived, but if there is no way that we can find out that we living in a land of deception. So this makes it senseless to dispute the truth in the world because you can’t unplug yourself from the world to see if there is a demon deceiving everybody. com/CapeCanaverla/Launchpad/1350/essays/cogito. In the movie The Matrix everyone was walking around in a world that was completely manufactured by super intelligent robots. Descartes would argue that the deceptions of the demon are perfect because he is deceiving through all of the senses and his deceptions can’t be detected.

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