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What's in your head?
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What's in your head?
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"...No: if I convinced myself of something then I certainly existed. But there is a deceiver of supreme power and cunning who is deliberately and constantly deceiving me. In that case I too undoubtedly exist, if he is deceiving me; and let him deceive me as much as he can, he will never bring it about that I am nothing so long as I think that I am something. So after considering everything very thoroughly, I must finally conclude that this proposition, I am, I exist, is necessarily true whenever it is put forward by me or conceived in my mind...Thinking? At last I have discovered it - thought; this alone is inseparable from me. I am, I exist - that is certain. But for how long? For as long as I am thinking. For it could be that were I totally to cease from thinking, I should totally cease to exist...I am a thinking thing." René Descartes, Meditations on First Philosophy - Second Meditation
The NYLS Recommended Reading List Top Six
The List
His Illegal Self, by Peter Carey - Fiction - Read NYLS Book Review
Twenty-Eight Artists and Two Saints by Joan Acocella - Nonfiction - Read NYLS Book Review
Lost Men by Brian Leung - Fiction - Read NYLS Book Review
Brothers by Da Chen - Fiction - Read NYLS Book Review
The Sea by John Banville - Fiction - Read NYLS Book Review
Descendants of Caine by Iimani David - Fiction - Read NYLS Book Review
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