Yes, you have to think and wish to listen to music before you play a song, it may or may not be real, but that is part of thinking. Whatever you use to interpret your real world or create your own imaginary world is part of thought.7 - What is the point of Descartes' discussion of the piece of wax? In other words, why is he talking about it? What apparent problem, difficulty, or surprising fact is the discussion intended to resolve or alleviate? The fact is that matter can change and everything could be a figment of your imagination and not necessarily real. The fact is, you can't be sure. of anything because what you think is real about what you can see might be fake. Even if you can feel, see the color of things, touch them, you cannot be. If it's your imagination or an illusion. The difficulty is that he cannot be certain of his sense perception, and he recognizes that he has sense perception but cannot rely on it8- At the end of number 12, Descartes says something absolutely shocking . He says that his perception of wax "is not a case of vision, touch or imagination - and it never has been, despite