<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=477388" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Descartes' Despair</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">How can we affirm our own existence? <br>Cogito ergo sum, Descartes said, <br>I think therefore I am.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But wait! <br>Who is doing the thinking? <br>The body? <br>Am I my body? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Well, Descartes explained, we are talking about<br>Two incompatible substances: <br>The unextended and indivisible mind<br>In contrast with the extended and divisible matter, <br>Res cogitans versus res extensa.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Yes, but am I my body? <br>How is the contact created<br>Between the mental<br>And the physical worlds? <br>Princess Elizabeth of the Palatinate asked.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Well, somewhere at the base of the brain, <br>In the pineal gland, replied the philosopher.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Oh, I have a problem with that, <br>The princess remarked.<br>For, if the brain exists in space, <br>How can the non-spatial mind dwell in it? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">And Descartes threw up his hands<br>In despair.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Paul+Hartal">Paul Hartal</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=477388" data-title="Descartes' Despair de Paul Hartal" data-description="How can we affirm our own existence? Cogito ergo sum, Descartes said, I think therefore I am. But wait! Who is doing the thinking? The body? Am I my body? Well, Descartes explained, we are talking about Two incompatible substances: The un..."></div> </div> </div>

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