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I think therefore I am?

ygolo

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I see therefore I am.
I hear therefore I am.
I smell therefore I am.
I taste therefore I am.
I feel therefore I am.
and, yes...
I think therefore I am.

But I am more than that which sees, hears, smells, tastes, feels, and thinks.

Who am I?
 

Fluffywolf

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I see therefore I am.
I hear therefore I am.
I smell therefore I am.
I taste therefore I am.
I feel therefore I am.
and, yes...
I think therefore I am.

But I am more than that which sees, hears, smells, tastes, feels, and thinks.

Who am I?

Honest answer to your question: You are a philosopher.

Seriously though. We think, hear, smell taste and feel and that's all good, but we also learn, adapt and evolve.
 

sprinkles

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Who is anyone?

'Who' denotes a person or individual, but does not describe them. Which is kind of funny because you can know much about someone and not know who they are, and you can know who someone is without knowing a lot about them.
 

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You are that which is aware of it all, including itself. Everything else you may think about it, belongs in the same realm as the other stimuli you can be aware of. It may help to noticing the difference between being aware and thinking about it. It's in that noticing moment that one can notice this.
 

ygolo

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You are that which is aware of it all, including itself. Everything else you may think about it, belongs in the same realm as the other stimuli you can be aware of. It may help to noticing the difference between being aware and thinking about it. It's in that noticing moment that one can notice this.

Are you a Buddhist? Or a fan of Eckhart Tolle?
 

ilikeitlikethat

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You are you, I am me.

Be who you are not what you are.

Cogito Ergo Sum, atleast I'm here, in some form or another.

I only know I'm here because of my perceptions, and that is still existing at the end of the day.


You ever seen the Matrix (1999)?
 
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WALMART

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You are a culmination of that of which sees, hears, smells, tastes, feels, and thinks.
 

RaptorWizard

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The focus of our perceptions creates reality. Indeed, the power of focus may be the greatest gift of mental power we possess, it allowing us to impose our willpower upon creation!
 

Rasofy

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I don't see, yet I am.
-Stevie Wonder

I don't feel, yet I am.
-Anonymous INTP

I don't think, yet I am.
-Anonymous ESFP
 
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Ginkgo

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Just saying. Thinking is not necessary for being. One can be without thinking.

A person isn't a person unless he/she is conscious on some level. Pure unconsciousness for a human being may very well be a misnomer. Sure, a rock is unconscious. But as I said, Fireshield is not a rock.
 

ygolo

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A person isn't a person unless he/she is conscious on some level. Pure unconsciousness for a human being may very well be a misnomer. Sure, a rock is unconscious. But as I said, Fireshield is not a rock.

Are you implicitly saying that you find it impossible to stop thinking, and still be conscious?

I don't.
 
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Ginkgo

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Are you implicitly saying that you find it impossible to stop thinking, and still be conscious?

I don't.

Yeah. Otherwise, I wouldn't be me.

"I think, therefore I am". It's a deduction from a simple statement that implicitly claims that "I am, therefore I think." The line of reasoning is inextricable from itself.
 

Elfboy

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I see therefore I am.
I hear therefore I am.
I smell therefore I am.
I taste therefore I am.
I feel therefore I am.
and, yes...
I think therefore I am.
But I am more than that which sees, hears, smells, tastes, feels, and thinks.
Who am I?

personally, I think more "I believe therefore I am", but you being a Ti user and this being an Fi as hell thing to say, this probably makes absolutely no sense to you
 
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