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Originally Posted by Baraka_Guru
Cogito, ergo sum
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Actually quite the opposite!
The statement "I think, therefore I am." alludes to the perception that you (or whomever invokes the statement) is separate and distinct from me. If I am all there is, then you cannot be separate from me, regardless of your thoughts/perceptions to the contrary.
Hence, the root of my thoughts on this thread. We tend to fear death and feel sad for those that have died - believing that they are somehow "gone" or forever lost from our world, grasp, perception.
I find comfort in my belief that we're all mistakenly (or necessarily) perceiving ourselves as somehow separate and distinct from "all there is".