René Descartes - Meditation #2 - I think, therefore, I am
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Hand-picked by a BrighterTube curator · found via HackerTube (Karpathy's dataset of videos Hacker News recommends · 90% confidenceGoes line by line through Descartes's Second Meditation, the cogito and the wax argument, and what exactly the cogito does and does not prove.
What you'll learn
Descartes's second Meditation and the cogito.
Video by Jeffrey Kaplan, played through YouTube's embedded player.
Part of Descartes' Meditations, Introduction to Philosophy (Descartes' Meditations & the Mind-Body Problem)
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