Ian_C. comments on Fundamental Doubts - Less Wrong

24 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 12 July 2008 05:21AM

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Comment author: Ian_C. 12 July 2008 08:50:16AM 0 points [-]

I think Descartes was right. Even if this is the Matrix and everything is fake, even your thought processes, then it is all still something and not nothing. By nothing I mean a dimensionless point. So at the very least you are *something*. "I think therefore I am."

Comment author: DanielLC 30 June 2012 04:45:59AM 1 point [-]

Even if this is the Matrix...

Yes, but what if this isn't the Matrix? What if there really is nothing?

Comment author: TheAncientGeek 29 March 2014 11:35:35AM 1 point [-]

At the very least something is something.