[Semper]

I think, therefore I exist

In the spirit of doubting or analyzing I contend that it would be better to say: "I am aware, therefore I exist". Thought/intelligence could originate from our Source and just be manifested through us. I like: "God thinks, therefore we exist".

[thinktwice]

Thought/intelligence could originate from our Source and just be manifested through us.

Why would an all-knowing God send us out ... so poorly equipped?

[discostu]

But his whole concept was working out from the only thing that didn't ever have to be proven. The position he started from was that everything around you could be an illusion, the very body you live in could be a mental construct, to put it in modern terms, we could all be in The Matrix. But he knew, with absolute certainty, that he existed because he could contemplate this in the first place. The fact that he could think proved beyond any possible doubt that somewhere somehow in some form he existed. From there he went on to prove that everything else (including God, or at least something God-like) existed. From the starting position he was going for God was one of those external "things" that he couldn't be sure of (remember, his very body was on that list, it's not that he was being anti-religious he was looking for proof of reality on it's most basic level).

It's really a very interesting logical excercise. Useless, but very interesting.