I think therefore I am....?

Question

Does that mean most Americans aren't??

Answer 1

no, but its neither yes because of the word "think"...it indicates an opinion that will be either true or false but can't be absolutely true nor false..

Answer 2

lol.no Answer to that one.

Answer 3

I like it.

Answer 4

no, it doesn't mean that. That's juts your opinion.

Answer 5

Right on the money. Thinking will be the next addition in the Americans evolution. Either that or they will go back to having only 4 fingers and a thumb on each hand.

Answer 6

No, only the one's that live in Jesusland.

Answer 7

I would agree with you except I see them getting fat and lazy and sticking their noses in other peoples business while they promote stupid TV.

Answer 8

Yes it probably does :)

Answer 9

All animals think, therefore we are

Answer 10

Ah, but they don't know they aren't, so it doesn't.

They wouldn't believe what some frenchman said anyway.

Cheers, Steve.

Answer 11

mmm...ic

Answer 12

i think too much, thats why ive got this blooming headache lol

Answer 13

Though the question was intended humorously, I might as well answer it seriously, since I'm bored out of my mind. The statement "I think therefore I am" displays one view of the existence/conscious dynamic. Some say that there is a soul, and life has meaning-- that a ball of cells already has its personality within it, and has a destiny. Others, existentialists, believe that existence precedes consciousness. It is not a matter of intelligence.

Answer 14

Who cares what you think............

Answer 15

i love you spread the love.

Answer 16

Another trend in philosophy is reported to declare "I am, therefore I think".

In a sense they are right, because you simply cannot think if you are not, unless you think that you are something else, something in the style of a nothingness, let's say an entity other than human that may still be thinking without needing to ... be a being.

If you do not exist in the conventional way you have no life in the intended way, and so also probably no thoughts of the conventional definition.

Those "Americans" who do not think, they still are, and some of them even live a quite fiercy life, running around and shooting each other down, or smashing each other's face. They might not think in our intended way, or think too little or think too much, or think bluntly wrong, sinfully, all too perverted, nastily,  whatever.

But they still are, there on their own scene, and even on others' scenes, in their more or less bright quality of, for instance, being "Americans".

Answer 17

Very funny ;-) Too bad it doesn't work in reverse. (I can think of several people, starting with our idiot president who does NOT think, but, unfortunately, he most definitely still is!)

But, I think this belongs in philosophy or psychology, not Anthropology.