"COGNITO, ERGO SUM"

(sigh)

Descartes: "Cognito, ergo sum." ("I think, therefore I am.")

I was reading a philosophy book recently (don't ask) and came upon an interesting piece on Descartes and his famous statement. On the surface, this stuff is intriguing; but the more I read, the more I decided that 1) it's too deep for me and 2) it's possible these philosophers were trying to meditate their elbows up their a _ _ _ _. Most likely it's both, since elbows don't fit in those places and I can't fathom trying. You'd think the statement itself is self-explanatory, but noooooo. Descartes wrote and wrote and wrote trying to explain himself and how he came to this "amazing" conclusion. The only thing that I agreed with was that he decided "If I do not exist, then I cannot be mistaken."

I LIKE that.

(sigh)