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Steve Jordan
Feb 4, 2010, 5:43:29 PM2/4/10
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On 2/4/10, Gogarty wrote:
> An article in today's New York Times about brain activity in some
> vegetative brain injury patients ended with the following:
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> "Physicians and society are not ready for 'I have brain activation
> therefore I am.' That would seriously put Descartes before the horse."
Hee hee, good one.
For those who have not looked it up, that's Rene Descartes,
philosopher and mathematician of 17th-Century France, who wrote
"Cogito, ergo sum" (I think, therefore I am).
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Steve J
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