funny how

background info: René Decartes proposed a thought experiment where you imagine all of your thoughts are apples.

to make sure your thoughts are logical, you dump out all of the apples, inspect them, and put the ones that aren’t rotten back in your head.

but here’s my problem with this:

so you dump out your apples,

check them for bruises,

right?

then put them back in.

but what if you bruise the apples?

when you dump them out, put them in?

how do you know if you made a bruise?

and what if the rest of the apple is still good?

or what if the inside is rotten?

but here’s the weirdest one.

what happens to your new apples?

by examining the old ones, you have a new idea:

a new apple.

but how do you inspect that one,

without creating another you can’t inspect?

will there always be one unexamined apple?

if so, which is the safest for it to be?

maybe we could just make applesauce.

thoughts don’t come in neat little packages, anyway.