Descartes

Descartes and his Deamon Everyday we are bombarded with various forms of stimuli. We see many people, we hear cars drive by, we feel the cool breeze, etc, but how can we prove that we are really experiencing these stimuli? That is the question that Rene Descartes asked some three hundred fifty years ago, is there anything real in this world? Descartes concluded that at least his mind existed because he was thinking, which led …

…mind stops thinking and is just aware of the reality around it without looking at it through a lens of classifying, it is able to see the world in its “suchness”, the way it really is. They call this process of quieting the mind and perceiving the real world, enlightenment. Now if our minds are really the elusive demon of Descartes, meditation seems to be a good way of escaping the grip of the daemon.