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Ideas can travel through time and space

Ideas can travel through time and space without being uttered out loud. The process of telepathy requires two places:

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Look, here’s a table covered with red cloth. On it is a cage the size of a small fish aquarium. In the cage is a white rabbit with a pink nose and pink-rimmed eyes. On its back, clearly marked in blue ink, is the numeral 8. The most interesting thing here isn’t even the carrot-munching rabbit in the cage, but the number on its back. I never opened my mouth and you never opened yours. We’re not even in the same year together, let alone the same room... except we are together. We are close. We’re having a meeting of the minds. We’ve engaged in an act of telepathy.

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In Meditations on First Philosophy the philosopher René Descartes describes a series of doubts about the nature of reality, arriving at the famous phrase:

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In Meditations on First Philosophy the philosopher René Descartes describes a series of doubts about the nature of reality, arriving at the famous phrase:

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He argues that doubting requires thinking, and therefore, the act of thinking confirms his existence.

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