How do you know you're real?

An absolutely delightful animation dealing with questions with which Descartes (March 31, 1596–February 11, 1650) tussled in his foundational 1641 treatise - Meditations on First Philosophy - "a quest to shake and uproot all beliefs not grounded in what is known with absolute certainty, and to advance a framework for what we can know beyond a shadow of a doubt."

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