Mind is our Lab and our Experiment is Thought
“I Think, Therefore I Am” – René Descartes This quote itself blows up my mind. I know everyone reading this might already be thinking — just from the title — what I’m going to write about. But trust me, this will make sense or maybe not, because in philosophy, everything doesn't need to make sense . At the very beginning, you answer the 9 philosophical questions... and then you question the answers themselves . Every day in the journey of learning philosophy is a quest in itself — where you have to question and question and keep questioning until your brain fries. I know people feel that philosophy students don't have much work to do — but trust me, we have a LOT . The questioning happens first in terms of our thinking , then about others' thinking , then others’ minds , then what is happening in those minds , and then boom — the mind-body problem . Then comes the meaning of words , free will , right and wrong — everything is a BIG problem in itself. I ju...