Descartes' radical skepticism is at bottom an aggressive denial of intuitive knowledge. It is not, as he claims, merely an attempt to be judicious in his analysis of what he knows of the world and what he knows of himself; it is a radical restructuring of our understanding of consciousness away from the holistic and towards the hyper-rational.
When people bleach out their intuitive senses of the world they lose their sense of inner vitality and they lose their sense of how things in the world are imbued with that vitality. A world devoid of vitality becomes boring and meaningless, where time stretches on endlessly in an excruciating sameness.
The Cartesian worldview resembles the worldview of the schizophrenic and the profoundly depressed.
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