Descartes said: I think, therefore I am. Helvetius wants to say: I feel, therefore I want to feel pleasantly. I prefer Hobbes who claims that in order to draw a conclusion which takes us somewhere, we must say, I feel, I think, I judge; therefore, a part of organized matter like me is capable of feeling, thinking, and judging.

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Descartes said: I think, therefore I am. Helvetius wants to say: I feel, therefore I want to feel pleasantly. I prefer Hobbes who claims that in order to draw a conclusion which takes us somewhere, we must say, I feel, I think, I judge; therefore, a part of organized matter like me is capable of feeling, thinking, and judging.

-- Denis Diderot

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