Descartes is give credit for the statement, “I think therefore I am.” That really is a dumb statement as it is very circular. If I ask him who it is that “Is doing the thinking?” his reply would be “me”, or “I am.”
My reply would be, “Who is I?”
The human physical body is merely a cocoon for the development of consciousness, like a seed pod does for a plant, until it grows to exist without the seed pod and it sheds it. When you grow spiritually, you begin to perceive directly from consciousness without your 5 physical senses.
It takes some work, but you quickly learn to know the thoughts of others and learn more in epiphanies than reading and studying. In the beginning was the word, and that word was made flesh. A word is merely a metaphor for pattern of consciousness that has meaning. That is how we were made in God’s image. We are seeds of consciousness.
I quote - “Cogito ergo Deus est. -I think, therefore God is.