Masters and Possessors

Descartes's Dream, Our Reality

At the end of “Longevity Escape Velocity”, I mentioned that subscribers to Pancake Victim Speaks will encounter repeated reflection on the end of René Descartes’s Discourse on Method. I quoted from Discourse 6 as translated by John Cottingham for Cambridge University Press.

This is not the first translation of Descartes’s Discourse I read, and while I’ve…