"When and while I think in the first person, present tense mode, I must necessarily exist."
Question: Can this famous Cartesian epistemological hypothesis be empirically verified?
The answer, I submit, is yes. However, with the peculiar proviso that the empirical verification (thought experiment/thought act) that occurs must always remain subjective and personal, rather than objective and public. — charles ferraro
Arthur Schopenhauer claimed that the human brain (the understanding) spontaneously constructed perceptual objects by applying (a) the pure “a priori” intuitions of space and time and (b) the transcendental principle of cause and effect to the body’s subjective “under the skin” sensations. — charles ferraro
Fast forward to present day neuroscience and find your answer. — I like sushi
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