Eli5: What does ‘I think therefore I am’ mean and why is it a big deal?
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Descartes (the man who wrote it) wanted to find something that’s objectively true
You can’t trust your senses since they wrong you a lot, mathematics could be different, etc.
At the end of his long experiment, he took a step back and notice that something (that thinks) did an experiment and that’s true.
It’s probably the only thing you can prove and only to yourself.
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