Descartes convinced himself that nothing really existed, our bodies our friends all we know and love. He believes that all of the outside stimuli are some how not naturally put in ones mind to create a false sense of reality. Would this make Descartes nonexistent as well as his body and mind? Not necessarily, it wouldn’t because he doubts existence and how can there be doubt if there isn’t anybody to do the doubting. In other words in order to believe in the falseness of the entire universe, one still has to exist in order to believe. And believe c

Descartes supposed that there was a demon, an evil one that was spending all of its time deceiving him and everyone else in the world. The demon would plant illusions in his and everybody’s head to make us believe that we are seeing, touching, tasting, hearing, and smelling, things that are not really there or completely different for what our human mind perceives. It may even be deceiving us into thinking that we have a physical body. Descartes believed that the demon could deceive him about anything except for his own existence. Because how can he be deceived if he does not exist. Perhaps he deceives Descartes about everything else. One of the most frustrating things about Descartes’ theory is that there is no true way to find out if one is being deceived or not. Descartes seemed to have a perverse imagination to believe an peripheral demon is the root of all of the false perception. If only our mind existed then where is our mind? If we are living in a fake reality our minds could be sitting in a tank somewhere or something to that effect. If that were the case then we wouldn’t have to look to a demon for our perception fallacies, our own mind could be the root of our false reality.

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