Descartes for Dummies

I think therefore I am. I think therefore I am…

I think therefore I am. I think therefore I am?

I think therefore I am. I think therefore I am!

I think therefore I am.

But how does this statement hold up during those moments when we exist but have no conscious knowledge of it, such as periods of sleep?

You could film someone with their knowledge getting into bed and falling asleep until the point at which they wake up with a demonstrable sense that time has passed but no recollection of thought.

Would memory mean:

I thought therefore I was.

Kind of makes sense doesn’t it.

But memory is fallible, so did you only exist during those brief periods that you can remember which can get corrupted and fade?

Yet the physical body can be shown to have existed longer than the events we can recall.

This would possibly suggest a disconnect between the physical existence and the neurological one.

I would argue then that descartes is only partly right unless we are two organisms living in symbiosis, a physical one and a spirit.

Just what many religions believe

But then the Abrahamic religions believe the spirit can exist without the body. How could this be possible?

Maybe a better answer is:

We are.