I Think Therefore I am - Who am I ?

 I have written a lot since I left University but perhaps this  is my favourite piece of work and a fitting start to my new blog, it's a little something inspired from the famous philosophical statement in Latin used by René Descartes: "Cogito urgo sum : I think therefore I am".  Its such a great statement because it begs further questions,  are we just the result of our thoughts? How do are thoughts affect who we are and what we do, and are we the result of our actions that are brought about by our thoughts? Lots of questions but isn't that just the sheer joy of philosophy.

I think therefore I am - Who am I?


I think these words using my mind
I write these words using my body.


Thus my mind and body belong to me
Therefore I am not my mind or body.

Thus If my mind and body belong to me
Then I am not the mind and body in which you see.



If my finger is part of me then my body is part of me
Thus my mind is also part of me, and as they all belong to me
Then so do I also belong to me.


Therefore I am part of myself as I belong to me
Who am I?

Once you have ruled out the impossible
What ever is left
No matter how improbable
Must be the truth.

Therefore am I my: Thoughts, Feelings, or Actions
As only these can truly belong to me.

I am not my Thoughts as they belong to my mind
I am not My Feelings as they belong to my body
Thus I am my Actions as I could not be anything else.

Who am I – I am my Actions.
By Brian Nissen, Bsc (Hons).