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Criticism of "I think, therefore I am"

I have recently started learning about philosophy, and started with reading through Jaworski's 'Philosophy of Mind'. I found this to be a really good introduction if anyone is interested in an introductory book on the topic..! 

Following this, I became interested in Descartes' meditations and have been considering his 'cogito'. There is an interesting criticism of it, which says that the presupposition of an 'I' is problematic. And that a better statement would be 'there is thinking'. Which I am inclined to agree with.

My question is, is this also going too far? And would a less presumptuous statement be 'there is experience' or 'there is awareness'? Perhaps this is just semantics, but 'thinking' to me implies a specific subset of experience that brains do.

I am very keen to read more on this topic and if anyone has any recommendations on either side of this issue I would be very interested to read them.
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'There is experience' sounds really Deleuzian to me. He's a french philosopher who worked on what he called transcendental empiricism which would be something quite close to this, that is, that experience is a kind of impersonal transcendental background on which the subject may then emerge. He also worked upon William James as well, who has similiar stuff in his Essays in Radical Empiricism. Just so you know, Deleuze is a *difficult philosopher* and quite singular in what he proposes. His philosophy also converses with Spinoza, Nietzsche, Bergson, Marx, Lacan, amongst many others.

Edit. Deleuze's first published work is about Hume's empiricism, commenting this cause of a previous comment.