cognition
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Even before the advent of what is known as "the society of the spectacle" the cogito was incomplete, but the exteriorization of memory in the information age makes that fundamental error all the more evident.
From Salon • Aug. 26, 2018
René Descartes summed this up in his famous phrase: cogito ergo sum – I think, therefore I am.
From The Guardian • Jan. 6, 2018
This is the idea behind Descartes’ bumper-sticker statement, cogito ergo sum.
From Slate • Jun. 7, 2013
EEG recordings, the Cartesian cogito and the science of human consciousness: it can only be Jonathan Wilson on whether footballers know what they're really doing.
From The Guardian • May 29, 2012
The next year Descartes formulated his famous doctrine cogito ergo sum, ‘I think therefore I am’; consequently, there is something, one thing, I know for certain.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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