Re: CHAT Cartesian parataxis (was: ANNOUNCE: First longer sentence in S7)

Ray Brown scripsit:

> >"Cogito [ergo] sum" is simply a statement
> >that it is safe to assume that you exist; otherwise, who would be doing
> >the observing?
>
> Yes, seems fair enough to me.
It's really a Whorfian mind-lock based on subject-object metaphysics,
though (and small blame to Descartes for that); Buddhist metaphysics
has no problem with thinking-without-a-thinker, any more than
observing-without-an-observer.  From the Buddhist viewpoint, Descartes's
illegitimate move is when he extends a bare process-of-thinking into
something with a personal ego.

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