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Cogito, Ergo Sum, by John Foster West
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Title: Cogito, Ergo Sum
Author: John Foster West
Release Date: June 17, 2009 [EBook #29149]
Language: English
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Are the Spirit and the Flesh one and the same thing? Or are they separate entities, dependent and at the same time independent of each other? Perhaps some great Cosmic Law holds this secret. But the one Universal Element that we can depend upon, apparently, is The Lucky Accident.
cogito, ergo sum
by ... John Foster West
A warped instant in Space--and two egos are separated from their bodies and lost in a lonely abyss.
I think, therefore I am. That was the first thought I had. Of course not in the same symbols, but with the same meaning.
I awakened, or came alive, or came into existence suddenly, at least my mental consciousness did. "Here am I," I thought, "but what am I, why am I, where am I?"
I had nothing to work with except pure reason. I was there because I was not somewhere else. I was certain I was there and that was the extent of my knowledge at the moment.
I looked about me--no, I reasoned