Descartes' Error

By Hadyn Adams

Descartes’ philosophy of existence

was based on doubt. Considering everything

he slowly dismantled the scaffolding

of life and realised the evidence

to justify our being lay not in sense

but in the mind, for behind questioning

there is a questioner who is framing

the questions. This led him to the inference,

Cogito ergo sum. Nevertheless

I think it is not ‘I’ who makes me be

But you, in whose collective consciousness

Exists what’s termed my personality,

The proof whereof you will yourselves profess

Once I have passed the way of all mortality.

Hadyn Adams has spent over four decades working in education initially in positions in the U.K. and subsequently in the near and far East. Creative writing has been a habit throughout his life and he has self-published three novels and had a few poems printed in various magazines and anthologies.

Tanya Rastogi is an artist and writer from Bettendorf, Iowa. Her work has been published in The Adroit Journal, Oyster River Pages, and Kissing Dynamite, among others. She is the founding editor of The Seraphic Review. When she's not hunched over a screen, Tanya enjoys playing the flute and watching video essays.

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