"we cannot doubt of our existence while we doubt." "I doubt, therefore I think, therefore I am"
As for your position on the Geico lizard, please demonstrate he's capable of forming a cogent thought.
It's a tenet of Western thought that we exist. cf Eastern philosophy. Yet it can't be proven. Wiping out Eastern philosophy in one fell swoop would be cool! However you phrase the proposition you must exist to be able to state the proposition. I don't know enough Descartes to know if he's restating that assumption in a backhanded way or meant something else.
I'm not sure that anyone at Geico can form a cogent thought.
The key elements in human thinking are not numbers but labels of fuzzy sets. -- L. Zadeh
