Cogito, ergo sum, as the phrase goes in Latin, cemented the way the Western world would continue to define the self for the next 400 years—as a thinking mind, first and foremost. The experiment used a ...

we are shown that if it is formally true to look upon it as the introduction to Descartes' philosophy, this short work is materially a retrospect, a summing-up of a life's achievement, rather than ...