1. Cogito Ergo Sum
By
Nick Willett
Ever since I was maybe about... six years old I have always pondered as to who we
really are. I mean... are we really“humans” or are we really advanced A.I. made by some other
type of species for their own enjoyment like we are some sort of sims game? Am I just a
character in a story written by some guy who just can’t seem to write anything creative? Am I a
character in some sort of “RPG” game and everyone around me is just a NPC and I have no
apparent quest? Do we really have control as to who we are or does the DNA strains in our
bodies search more of a purpose then we think and actually regulates how we think and act.
There’s so many random theories that I have come up with over the short years of my life and I
can’t make an argument as to which one is plausible. I can’t just rant about my many many
theories that I have and make up all the time and if someone close to me read this they would
probably take me to Ponoka.
I was about four and I was being baby sat by this lady who was all about the old
testament of the bible. You know... Noah’s arc and all that fun stuff. Anyways, It was because of
her that I was introduced to the idea of angels and heaven. During my final year of being
babysat by her which was when I was about six years old was when I started to think.... If
people die and go then... what happens after heaven? Do people just live for ever then and if so
then what do they do for fun? I mean... things would get pretty boring in heaven after a few
hundred years. So I began to think maybe they started to develop their own sort of MMORPG’S
of sorts... Almost like the Sims on a giant scale where there is this giant server that is pretty
much called Earth... Then Will Wright found out I was thinking this and one year later he made
the sims... F%$^&@# A$$%&^#!.. anyways. That idea got thrown out though after maybe 2-3
years because I started to think more outside of the box of what I learned.
Time went on, I grew slightly older and fatter and on my 11th birthday I had a bunch of
friends over for my birthday (Ok only two friends but that doesn’t mean I’m unloved!) And my
mom decided to surprise us with a rented copy of The Matrix Reloaded and that just blew my
mind. It still blows my mind I mean. I still ponder whether or not we really are part of some sort
of Matrix or false reality and being harvested with out knowing it. I feel this idea is much more
plausible then the whole “Sims” idea because if we were part of a Sims style game then I don’t
think we as humans would have the ability to rationalize things and use logic... unless this
feature is some sort of sick joke made by the makers of thus “sims” style game just to F@#&
with us. But being part of a false reality or a martix makes much more sense if we have the
power to think for our selves and question our lives. Then again... being in a Matrix isn’t all
bad... I mean... its not our emotions and feelings are being controlled. Its just pretty much a
virtual reality that we live in that is probably better the life that would await us on the outside.
Grade 8 rolls in and so does science that is something more then... hot air rises and
what not. We started to look at cells and and how they had DNA strands and that made me start
to think... what if those specific cells and their DNA Strands had a bigger role then we think. Like

2. I mean... since they contain different messages and such to make our body... what if they are
able to think coordinatly among each other and as I type this they are actually telling me to write
this. By that logic... I or we don’t have any free will at all.Our cells tell us how to think and how to
act, decide what morals we have and the extent of our logic. I really hate this idea but its once I
thought of and considered quite a bit.
That pretty much concludes this sort essay on “Cogito Ergo Sum”. I never really heard of
it before but now that I think about this phrase it makes me feel more and more like a human
with true free will. I still have the thoughts that everything I think and do is an illusion or actions
actually made by someone else but writing this essay has been very insightful for myself. I know
I didn’t make an argument but my excuse is that Im not biased and discriminative to my other
insane ideals of life and our very own existence so THERE!