The Ultimate SOMA Discussion Thread

[phantomland]

Did you see what those two people discussed on Frictional's Facebook post?

The letters behind the loader most likely reads "COGITO ERGO
SUM". The quote is from René Descartes, it's philosophical idea and it means: "I think, therefore I am". Like the guy on Facebook wrote: "This sentence refers to his belief of a strong connection between mind, body and soul and that if we can think, we know that we exist". They also speculated about a connection between this and what Thomas has talked about earlier (on GDC if I'm not mistaken). He was describing projecting consiousness onto inanimate objects, with the example being a fake hand. If you are convinced that the fake hand is yours, you will be scared if I hit the fake hand. Thomas applied this logic to horror games and mentioned that they want to explore those ideas further in their next project. Is the quote referencing that or are we digging to deep?