Descartes needed a position to stand in order to shape his other arguments. He needed to declare the fact that he exists with complete certainty in order to make illustrative arguments about anything else that may exist or …show more content…
If all there is to a person is the body, and our attention are simply the physiological actions that take place in our brain, then Descartes' argument breaks down, because he himself states that the existence of the body is a belief deferred in a doubt. Not only is 'Cogito ergo sum' is the base for the further argument of the individuality of the immaterial mind and physical body, and so the assumption for the proof of the existence of God. It is also an explanation that was meant to be clear of any abstract judgment that we as human beings are obligated to have due to our ambiguous senses. However, we can only pursue Descartes if we share dualist or namely, Cartesian dualist viewpoint. If we do not, then there is nothing that stops us from questioning our own existence. For, if we doubt the existence of our bodies, we therefore doubt the existence of our brain, and therefore any concept that we have might be exposed to