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Decartes (Meditations (Meditation 1 (7) God would not let me be wrong at…

- - - - Hyperbolic Doubt
        
        Get rid of anything with a shred of doubt
        
        Hyperbolic: Exaggerated
        
        All he needs is one thing to start off from
  - - - "Deceived"
    - - Everything in reality is created by this evil demon
        
        doing all that he can to deceive him and keep him deceived
  - - - But that means he's thinking
        
        What is this thinking thing
    - - Judges, infers, perceives (senses), imagines
      - I exist as a mind
      - Cogito Ergo Sum
    - - You understand what wax is through reason not senses
        
        sensual things (smell, shape) changes when near fire
        
        rational things (flexible, motion-able) keeps steady
      - Reason shows the essence of the wax
- - - - you are not a fucking machine
      - you are a mind vs you have a mind
      - Explain your body through mechanics
        
        cannot explain your mind
      - pineal gland can be connection
  - - - chickens at rockville are white
        
        all chickens are white
  - - - Capital punishment is wrong because the state shouldn't decide who dies
      - don't answer why