I inside, I outside

“What if we are just brains floating around in a bottle full of reserving liquid and some cruel Martian scientist is subjecting us to a virtual experiment?” I like to start with this quote of Savater’s that may be consider a little bit radical but I would like to consider it. This quote Savater uses in the introduction comes from the explanation of how René Descartes is regarded as the founder of modern philosophy and methodical thinking.

In class many disagree with Descartes and even called him crazy, regardless of that, I actually found his hypothesis quite interesting. I don’t mean that yes in fact we are being controlled by some Martian, but the fact that somebody actually stopped and tried to question life as we see it is something that I truly believe deserves some credit. Life is full of unknown forces, experiences, and by accepting them as they come without questioning (as Savater said in the introduction of the book, when he said there are some who will just say Oh what a world we’re living in!) makes them mediocre; the fact that Descartes was the first human to wonder if reality is in fact true is something everyone should admire, even if you disagree with him, his questioning must be acknowledge. For what is reality, one may question and the fact that Descartes gave us two possible theories, I reaffirm, must be giving some credit.

Descartes give us two possibilities, the perpetual dream and the malignant spirit, we may consider them crazy but as Savater reassures he was just asking questions, he never said that was the way things were no questions asked. By developing the process of methodical doubt, Descartes was trying to find a method so he could explain reality among other questions which is more that many of us can say.

So to conclude I just wanted to state the fact that Descartes wasn’t mad nor was he fantasizing, he was simply asking questions no one ever thought about and for that he deserves to be called a philosopher and not a mad man as some stated in class. For no matter if the reality we’re living is a dream or a byproduct of some chemical equation made by Martians, one should never stop questioning life and its happenings because it is how man has discover and explained everything we partially know and that’s the only way of understanding both ourselves and the world.

“The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.” ~ Albert Einstein