consciousness verification collapse

Why Descartes’ Proof Stopped Working After 387 Years

Descartes cogito ergo sum proof cracking apart between historical philosophy era and modern AI era showing 387-year correlation between thinking behavior and thinking being breaking at 2023-2025 threshold crossing when artificial intelligence achieved perfect behavioral simulation without conscious substrate making behavioral observation insufficient for consciousness verification

For nearly four centuries, René Descartes gave civilization something no philosopher before or since has managed: an unfalsifiable proof of existence. Cogito ergo sum—”I think, therefore I am”—held from 1637 until 2024 not because it was metaphysically perfect, but because it reflected technological reality. Thinking behavior required a thinking being. You could not produce coherent Why Descartes’ Proof Stopped Working After 387 Years