As indicated in my post #12, we are in agreement.
As indicated in my post #12, we are in agreement.
First, being aware and thinking are not the same thing. My cat is aware, but does not think. Second, thinking requires a thinker. You may call the thinker anything you like, but the usual concept for the one doing the thinking is "I".
Descarte was mistaken. Before one can doubt, one must first know something, such as what a doubt is, what an assertion is, so that it might be doubted, and so on. Descarte assumes existense, his own for example, as well as a lot of his faculties, such as his mind and perception. Then procedes to use those assumptions to doubt them, counter hypothesis.
Descarte was good at analytic geomety, but lousy at philosophy. But he's fooled a lot of people.
Hank