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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: Cogito, Ergo Sum + +Author: John Foster West + +Release Date: June 17, 2009 [EBook #29149] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK COGITO, ERGO SUM *** + + + + +Produced by Greg Weeks, Stephen Blundell and the Online +Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net + + + + + + +</pre> + + +<div class="bk1"><p><i><small>Are the Spirit and the Flesh one and the same thing? Or are they separate +entities, dependent and at the same time independent of each other? Perhaps +some great Cosmic Law holds this secret. But the one Universal +Element that we can depend upon, apparently, is The Lucky Accident.</small></i></p></div> + +<div class="bk2"><h1><b>cogito,<br /> +ergo<br /> +sum</b></h1> + +<h2><small><i>by ... John Foster West</i></small></h2> + +<p class="pr1"><b><big>A warped instant in Space—and +two egos are separated from their +bodies and lost in a lonely abyss.</big></b></p></div> + +<p class="cap"><span class="smcap">I think</span>, therefore I am. That +was the first thought I had. Of +course not in the same symbols, +but with the same meaning.</p> + +<p>I awakened, or came alive, or +came into existence suddenly, at +least my mental consciousness did. +"Here am I," I thought, "but +what am I, why am I, where am +I?"</p> + +<p>I had nothing to work with +except pure reason. I was <i>there</i> +because I was not somewhere +else. I was certain I was <i>there</i> +and that was the extent of my +knowledge at the moment.</p> + +<p>I looked about me—no, I +<i>reasoned</i> about me. I was surrounded +by nothingness, by black +nothingness, a vacuum. Immense +distances away I could detect +light; or rather, I could perceive +waves of force passing around me +which originated at points vast +distances away, vast in relation +to my position in the nothingness.</p> + +<p>There were waves of force all +about me, varying in frequency. +The nothingness was alive with +waves of force, traveling parallel +and tangential to each other without +seeming to interfere one with +another. I measured them, differentiated +between them and +finished with the task in a matter +of seconds.</p> + +<p>How could I do it? It was one +of the capabilities I was <i>created</i> +with.</p> + +<p>What was I? I perceived the +waves of force. I perceived great +quantities of mass—solid, liquid, +gas—whirling in vacuum, mass +built up out of patterns of basic +force. I searched my own being, +analyzed myself. I was not gas. +I was not solid. I was not even +force. Yet I existed. I could +reason. I was a beginning, a sudden +beginning. And I had duration +because I knew that time had +elapsed since the moment I +<i>awakened</i> though I had no means +of telling how much time or of +even naming the period.</p> + +<hr /> + +<p>Could I really be <i>pure reason</i>? +Can reason exist? Can rational +entity exist without a groundwork +of matter, or at least of force?</p> + +<p>It could. It must. I was rational +entity and I existed. Yet I could +find nothing of force, nothing to +occupy space about my <i>self</i>. For +all I could ascertain, I might have +covered a one-dimensional point +in eternity or I might have been +spread throughout vast distances.</p> + +<p>From this reasoning I concluded +that rational entity might +occur either as some force unlike +that of all natural phenomena in +space, or as some combination of +these forces at the moment beyond +my own power to analyze, +even detect. I finished with that +for the time being.</p> + +<p>How did I come into being? I +discarded the question as unanswerable +temporarily. What was +I before that instant I suddenly +reasoned <i>cogito, ergo sum</i>? I could +not say.</p> + +<p>How did I know I even existed, +really? Obviously because I was +capable of rational thought. But +what was thinking? First it was +perceiving and accepting my own +existence; beyond that, it was +recognizing the dark nothingness +around me and the forces it contained. +I had to exist.</p> + +<p>But how did I know nothingness +was right? And how did I +know its darkness was right? And +how did I know the waves of force +were <i>waves</i> and <i>force</i>? And how +did I know matter was <i>matter</i> and +that I was none of these?</p> + +<p>"Symbols," I reasoned. "I'm +thinking in symbols. I could not +reason without symbols; therefore +I could not exist as I am without +symbols to think with."</p> + +<p>Yet whose symbols were they? +Where and how did I come by +them? I could think back clearly +to the instant of my creation, yet +I had not invented the symbols in +the interim of my existence, nor +had they been given to me. What +then? They were part of me when +I came alive in this universe, had +been <i>invented</i> some other time +and elsewhere by someone else or +by what I was before I became +the entity of reason I now was.</p> + +<p>Then that first flash of perception +in nothingness was not spontaneous. +There was something +behind it. I was something before +that moment, in another era +of time, perhaps a creature of +substance. But what?</p> + +<p>I concentrated. I remembered +the symbol <i>Marl</i>. I was or had +been an entity <i>Marl</i>. Were there +others back there, somewhere? +There must have been, must be +yet. Was I the only <i>Marl</i> who +metamorphosed into this state of +rational entity? Surely not. Yet +I could contact no other rationale +around me as far away as I could +probe. How far was that? How +could I know. Was it far enough +to reach the other <i>Marls</i>, or were +they scattered thinly throughout +infinity around me like the flecks +of mass?</p> + +<p>I was suddenly ill. The symbol +<i>malaise</i> came to me as the proper +description of my malady. I grew +dizzy with my sickness. I wished +to regurgitate, to cast off this +cold, frightening sensation. Yet +I was provided with no physical +means of doing it. It filled me +throughout all my thinking. It +was I. I thought to exist. I +thought depression, sickness. +Therefore I was the malady and +it was a hell of malcontent beyond +symbolical description.</p> + +<p>What was wrong with me? I +was frightened. I was concerned +for my existence here alone. What +was it called? The idea shimmered +there on the fringe of perception, +then fairly leaped into +my consciousness. Existing alone +as pure reason was worse than +no-existence, was worse than +dying or never having been at all. +I need another <i>Marl</i>. To exist +happily, I must have at least one +other <i>Marl</i> to communicate with, +to share my thoughts, to share my +being.</p> + +<p>Is this a necessity, a condition +peculiar to me as I am, as reason, +or is it a condition that came +across the barrier with me from +that other state? It must be the +latter. An entity of pure reason, +having come into existence as +reason, would need nothing but +himself. Why? Because he would +be <i>without emotion</i>.</p> + +<p>"I am <i>emotional</i>," I thought. "I +am entity of almost pure reason, +but I have inherited emotion from +my previous state. It is a disorder +of thought, but it can be a pleasant +disorder when the emotion is the +right one; or, if unpleasant, when +satisfied.</p> + +<p>"But I could not have emotions +as I am now. They are <i>cortical +responses</i>, or are supposed to be. +What is <i>cortical</i>? No, they are a +sort of illogical reasoning, nothing +physical—" The rest eluded me.</p> + +<p>"I am lonely," I thought. +"Loneliness stems from fear and +fear is a basic emotion. I am very +lonely. I have been lonely for a +long time, bringing it with me +here. I would rather sate my loneliness +than live to eternity, than +know all there is to know. What +can quell my loneliness? Another +like me, another <i>Marl</i>—whatever +a <i>Marl</i> is. I must have, must find +another <i>Marl</i>."</p> + +<p>I began to search. I darted +frantically about space like a +frightened thing, though I could +perceive no movement. I knew I +passed from one area of space to +another because I could measure +slight changes in the position of +the stars about me. I knew the +points of light were <i>stars</i>.</p> + +<p>There was duration. I could +not know how much. Eternity? +A split second? But at last I +discovered another like me. No, +almost like me, but another <i>Marl</i>. +The other entity had less of reason, +more emotion. It was frightened +and lonely. The <i>Marl's</i> +whole existence was that of sickness—of +loneliness, which is fear. +The <i>Marl</i> was darting about madly, +seeking, seeking a thing like +itself. What was it, like me but +different?</p> + +<p>As I came in, I measured our +similarity and differences. Rationally +we were identical, or almost +so. Emotionally we were different, +vastly different. "<i>Marls</i> appear to +exist as rationale and emotion," I +reasoned. "Beyond that I cannot +go."</p> + +<p>The other <i>Marl</i> perceived me, +darted frantically toward me, then +slowed. We came together, +touched like—<i>like two cautious +fish meeting in a dark pool and +touching mouths to substantiate +identical species</i>.</p> + +<p>The other <i>Marl</i> was satisfied +with my identity. It leaped frantically +at me, raced around me, +through me, finally stopped, pervading +me, while <i>vibrating</i> in +sheer relief and happiness. I felt +the great fear-loneliness in the +other <i>Marl</i> begin to recede and +in its place came an almost overpowering +euphoria. It was <i>contentment</i>, +and it stemmed from +the basic emotion <i>love</i>. I knew +this at once.</p> + +<p>I suddenly realized that I too +was relieved, that I was no longer +sick with fear-loneliness. It was +good, this existing of the other +within me or simultaneously with +me. Or was it I within the other? +It sated our fear emotion and +made, created a love-euphoria.</p> + +<p>"I am happy I found you," I +communicated. "I was lonely for +another <i>Marl</i>. You are a <i>Marl</i>?"</p> + +<p>The other hesitated, thinking. +"No. I am <i>Pat</i>. I am different +from you. But it is chiefly emotional. +It is good."</p> + +<p>"You are a <i>Pat</i>," I returned in +disappointment. "I had hoped to +find another <i>Marl</i>."</p> + +<p>"Don't be disappointed," the +<i>Pat</i> soothed. "We are alike, really. +Almost so. Like—like flame and +gas are both substance yet different. +We are two types of the +same thing. I am no longer +frightened. I am no longer lonely. +You are good for me."</p> + +<p>I was relieved because I wanted +to be. I believed the other <i>Marl</i>—no, +the <i>Pat</i>—because I wanted +to believe. I did not bother to +rationalize. I felt elation.</p> + +<p>"Then in that other time, that +other place we both belonged to a—a +common group, with another +name?" I suggested.</p> + +<p>"I believe so," the <i>Pat</i> answered.</p> + +<p>"How was it when you came +awake?" I asked. "Can you remember?"</p> + +<p>"I think so. I recall I was born +here in fright because it was all +wrong. I was not in my natural +state, so it was not right." The +<i>Pat</i> paused to think. "I remember +there was great speed and I was +born in fright. Were you?"</p> + +<p>"No," I answered. "I was not +frightened at first. And I was +never frightened to the degree you +were. I was mostly lonely, which +is related to fear. But when I +first conceived of my existence +here I was coolly logical. I +awakened <i>reasoning</i>—realizing +that I existed."</p> + +<p>"I suppose it has to do with +our emotional differences," the +<i>Pat</i> beside me or with me or within +me communicated.</p> + +<p>"Do you recall where in space +you came from?" I asked. "I must +have been doubting my existence +at first so intensely I did not observe. +You seem to have taken +your own being for granted, thus +you were, perhaps, more observant."</p> + +<p>"I—I think so." The <i>Pat</i> hesitated +and I knew it was observing +the stars around us. "Yes. Come +with me. I think I know where."</p> + +<p>I stayed with the <i>Pat</i>, a part of +it, and we lurched through space. +Rather, we ceased to exist at one +point in space and existed in +another. How far? Distances +meant nothing.</p> + +<p>"It was here," the <i>Pat</i> informed +me finally.</p> + +<hr /> + +<p>Something was wrong here. +The interweaving waves of force +were all wrong. There was a +disorder, a great cancer in space. +The waves interfered with the +progress of each other all along a +great barrier. It was not natural, +not like it was elsewhere.</p> + +<p>"Something is wrong with the +waves of force crossing this area. +They interfere with each other. +New forces are created. Do you +detect it?" I communicated.</p> + +<p>"I feel it," the <i>Pat</i> answered. +"It is a sickness in space like—like +our loneliness."</p> + +<p>I knew the comparison was +ridiculous but I let it pass. "You +said you came alive at great +speed. I could have been traveling +too. We must have plunged +into this barrier. It seems to me +that emotions must originate in a +<i>physical</i> being; perhaps reason +could be free, but not emotion. +I don't know. But I have a +theory. I believe our <i>physical</i> +selves still exist somewhere in +space. The barrier, perhaps, interfered +with the normal functioning +of our mental equipment. +We exist at one point in space +and we are thinking, experiencing +emotions at another point. It's as +if our minds are—are broadcasting +our thoughts and emotions +far away from our physical selves. +Either that, or our rationales were +torn free and only our emotions +are broadcast. Does that sound +logical?"</p> + +<p>"Yes," the <i>Pat</i> agreed, "I believe +that is the answer."</p> + +<p>I felt that the <i>Pat</i> was pleased +with my theory, that it greatly +admired my reasoning. I also perceived +that it had no idea what I +meant by the explanation. I did +not mind.</p> + +<p>"You said you were moving at +great speed," I continued. "Can +you remember the line, the direction +you were traveling in?"</p> + +<p>The <i>Pat</i> hesitated only a moment. +"Yes. You perceive the +star cluster there, the triangular +one? My heading was in that +direction, but it was changing +fast."</p> + +<p>"Then we could find nothing +by traveling toward the triangular +cluster?"</p> + +<p>"No. I was moving in an arc in +the direction of the distorted +square cluster there. Do you see +it?"</p> + +<p>"Yes," I answered, knowing +her use of the word <i>see</i> was unconscious. +"That is Cetus."</p> + +<p>"Cetus?" The <i>Pat</i> was startled. +"How do you know that?"</p> + +<p>"I don't know. The name came +to me. It seemed right to call it +that."</p> + +<p>"It—it's all so frightening!"</p> + +<p>I had no time for pampering +our emotions, though I was at +great peace with the <i>Pat</i> so near +me. Time might prove vital. +"Neither would it do any good to +travel in the direction of Cetus," +I said.</p> + +<p>"No. No," the <i>Pat</i> communicated. +"If there is any object of +matter or force I was a part of +in that other existence traveling +through space, it is in an arc. +The best we can do is take an +arbitrary direction between the +triangular cluster and the one +called Cetus and hope to intercept +the object, the other part of +me, whatever it is."</p> + +<p>"Come with me," I ordered.</p> + +<p>I discovered the object of mass +hurtling through space before the +<i>Pat</i> did. It was symmetrical and +metallic. I tore myself away from +my companion and darted to meet +it. I discovered it was a shell, a +hollow thing, and I passed inside. +There was a room there. There +were projections and circles of +transparent matter. I experienced +the symbol <i>dials</i>.</p> + +<p>There were two other creatures +seated close to the dials, things of +matter, and their substance was +protoplasm. But there was no +rationale present in either of them. +I examined the living matter of +the smaller one swiftly. Organs +seemed poised in a suspended +state. The creature I observed, +housed in a protective shell, +seemed paralyzed or dead. I remembered +the word <i>dead</i>.</p> + +<p>Then the <i>Pat</i> was with me +again. "I—I feel something, <i>Marl</i>. +I am frightened. What are they, +those things there?"</p> + +<p>"They seem to be—" I stopped +communicating.</p> + +<p>The <i>Pat</i> had disappeared!</p> + +<p>The thing of protoplasm nearest +me was moving but I was no +longer interested. I remember the +<i>Pat</i> had touched the upper extremity +of the creature and had +vanished, had ceased to be.</p> + +<p>The old sickness was back. I +was lonely. I wanted the other +entity. I could not, did not wish +to exist without the <i>Pat</i>.</p> + +<p>I darted frantically about the +metal shell, here and there, +searching, searching. Where was +the <i>Pat</i>? I <i>screamed</i> for it. I +thought <i>Pat</i> as far away as I could +reach, but there was no reaction, +no response at all.</p> + +<p>In my frenzy, I was back beside +the creatures of protoplasm +before I realized it, near the one +I had not yet examined.</p> + +<p>"Perhaps they took her," I +thought. It was not logical, but it +was a hope. Hope is emotional; +I was becoming more emotional +than rational.</p> + +<p>I touched the larger of the two +creatures, experimentally; moved +cautiously inside it, searching, +searching.</p> + +<p>Suddenly I was seized by a +great force, an inexorable power +that grasped me and wrenched +me, tearing me from the point in +space I had occupied a moment +before. My perception blurred, +but I was not frightened. Without +the <i>Pat</i> I did not care what happened. +I was intensely curious. +"So this is how it is," I reasoned +in a flash, "to <i>cease to be</i>."</p> + +<p>And I ceased to be....</p> + +<hr /> + +<p>Marlow shook his head. I must +have dozed, he thought. He +glanced at the chronometer on the +console ahead. No, only a minute +or two had elapsed since the last +time he had checked.</p> + +<p>"Sleepy head! Wake up and +live!"</p> + +<p>He looked to his right. Pat sat +in the navigator's seat smiling at +him.</p> + +<p>"I didn't sleep, honestly," he +protested. "We hit some sort of +barrier back there. It knocked me +out for a moment. I had the +damnedest impression—"</p> + +<p>"Remember what you promised!" +She swiveled the seat about +to face him. "No more scientific +lectures on the mysteries of space +or I'll return to earth. You know +my poor brain can't absorb it."</p> + +<p>"You win," he grinned, running +calloused fingers through his greying +crew-cut. He leaned forward +and kissed her briefly. "How did +an old space hermit like me ever +win a flower-garden bride in the +first place?"</p> + +<p>They laughed together, and he +felt secure within the metallic shell +surrounding them, no longer +alone.</p> + +<div class="trn"><div class="figt"><a href="images/001-2.jpg"><img src="images/001-1.jpg" width="140" height="200" alt="" title="" /></a></div> + +<p><b><big>Transcriber's Note:</big></b></p> + +<p>This etext was produced from <i>Fantastic Universe</i> March 1954. +Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that the U.S. +copyright on this publication was renewed. Minor spelling and +typographical errors have been corrected without note.</p></div> + + + + + + + + +<pre> + + + + + +End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Cogito, Ergo Sum, by John Foster West + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK COGITO, ERGO SUM *** + +***** This file should be named 29149-h.htm or 29149-h.zip ***** +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + https://www.gutenberg.org/2/9/1/4/29149/ + +Produced by Greg Weeks, Stephen Blundell and the Online +Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net + + +Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions +will be renamed. + +Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no +one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation +(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without +permission and without paying copyright royalties. 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