An idea from Meditations on First Philosophy

What are you, then, if your body might be part of a dream? You’re a thing that thinks: it doubts, understands, says yes and no, wants, refuses, imagines and senses. The light you see may be dreamed. That you seem to see light can’t be false.

From Meditations on First Philosophy by René Descartes

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