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Writing is telepathy
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Ideas can travel through time and space
Ideas can travel through time and space without being uttered out loud. The process of telepathy requires two places:
A sending place , a transmission place — where the writer sends ideas, such as a desk
A receiving place — where the reader receives the ideas/imagery such as a couch, a comfortable chair, in bed
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Look, here’s a table covered with red cloth. On it is a cage the size of a small fish aquarium. In the cage is a white rabbit with a pink nose and pink-rimmed eyes. On its back, clearly marked in blue ink, is the numeral 8. The most interesting thing here isn’t even the carrot-munching rabbit in the cage, but the number on its back. I never opened my mouth and you never opened yours. We’re not even in the same year together, let alone the same room... except we are together. We are close. We’re having a meeting of the minds. We’ve engaged in an act of telepathy.
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In Meditations on First Philosophy the philosopher René Descartes describes a series of doubts about the nature of reality, arriving at the famous phrase:
[[I thin]]
I thin k therefore I am
Just thin k about it
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Lecture 1
Rationalists
Reason and innate knowledge → acquire knowledge
Fundamental truths and principles can be known independent of experience
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Reason and deduction
Empiricists
Experience and sensory perception → acquire knowledge
All knowledge is derived from experience and observation of the external world
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Cogito, ergo sum
In Meditations on First Philosophy the philosopher René Descartes describes a series of doubts about the nature of reality, arriving at the famous phrase:
I think therefore I am
He argues that doubting requires thinking, and therefore, the act of thinking confirms his existence.
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