And, Max, my good sir, however you try to wrangle it, the process of ponderous thought is upon you...if you're wallowing in the perception of pure intellect, pure thought, clear thought, alas!...that is the philosophy of Descartes! And if you're claiming the process of ponderous thought is useless, that's nihilism! And if you're asserting that the process of thought is not necessary at all, that is the here-and-now of existentialism...or the heart of Zen! And if you're simply claiming 1 + 1 = 2, well that goes back to Pythagorean numerology and all its philosophic computations and connotations!

I think, therefore I am.