Eastern ascetics and acid-trippers tell us that our individual existence is merely illusion, that we are not and never were separate beings, that all life is one great consciousness.
i think good/bad old descartes forgot to finish the statement...'i think therefore i am', what i think i am. he also seemed to believe that animals were 'machines' without any soul or feeling. just look in a dogs eyes and see how OFF that egomaniac was.
I think you are misreading Descartes. He was a Jesuit. He believed in souls. The essence of his quest was to establish separate realms for science and the Church.
so it's not true that he nailed his dog to his door? i hate even to think of it and i'm not sure where i read it. as far as i am what i think i am...that is hard to misread. i still my version is more true.
I may be a character in a dream in the Universal Mind, if I might use that analogy.
The key to understanding "The Soul" after death lies in knowing "The Soul" more comfortably in life, no?
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i think good/bad old descartes forgot to finish the statement...'i think therefore i am', what i think i am. he also seemed to believe that animals were 'machines' without any soul or feeling. just look in a dogs eyes and see how OFF that egomaniac was.
I think you are misreading Descartes. He was a Jesuit. He believed in souls. The essence of his quest was to establish separate realms for science and the Church.
so it's not true that he nailed his dog to his door? i hate even to think of it and i'm not sure where i read it. as far as i am what i think i am...that is hard to misread. i still my version is more true.