(August 15, 2016 at 2:44 am)ignoramus Wrote: So basically: I think, therefore I think I think is about as robust as it can get...
I personally think I'm a brain in a vat. Doesn't mean I really really am. What if I'm a virtual brain in a virtual vat in a virtual sim............. floating on a big turtle somewhere? Cool!
note to self: don't forget the milk...
"I think therefor I....ah crap, I forgot."

Feeling around the original saying objectively, there must at least be; a thinker (I), a query of self existence (think), and there must be some kind of reflective membrane (therefor) to bounce the query/confirmation back to source (I am).
"Leave it to me to find a way to be,
Consider me a satellite forever orbiting,
I knew the rules but the rules did not know me, guaranteed." - Eddie Vedder
Consider me a satellite forever orbiting,
I knew the rules but the rules did not know me, guaranteed." - Eddie Vedder