: Re: How to use "I think, therefore I am" in a more fluent manner? I want to allude an experience that feels almost like Descartes' idea of "I think, therefore I am". Because the phrase is a

@Frith254

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It sounds awkward, because you repeat "think":

... made us think with Descartes' "I think, therefore I am".

Besides that, your sentence is missing a logical step, which is another source for your "awkwardness". Descartes' confusion did not make him think "cogito, ergo sum". "Cogito, ergo sum" is the conclusion he arrived at after trying to dissolve this confusion.

So you should somehow show the way from confusion to conclusion. Something like:

The experience that we had undergone confused our consciousness in the real and virtual worlds and culminated in epiphany like Descartes' "I think, therefore I am".

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