Do we exist?

Question

What happens if we are all just programs in someones computer. I mean it sounds crazy but can you prove me wrong?!?!?

Do we exist as we think we do is what I mean.

Answer 1

Last time I checked, programs exist too. Even if what you say is true, it changes nothing.

Answer 2

been reading sci-fi books yes?
good for you ..they expand the mind
mind expansion is variable and 4 some takes a while to kick in...

as 4 your question,,,does it really matter if you are a programmed "person"??? You perceive time so why not live your life -rather than worry about what may or may not be?
Time will tell.....

Answer 3

According to chemistry and biology, we are recreated anew every 7 years. You are made up of 206 bones, billions of cells (who counted those anyway? lol) blood vessels that would stretch around the earth 4 times, 28 feet of intestines, red and white bllod cells, muscle tissue, fascia, and brain matter, and more. (You know, a computer is a dumb thing. It can't do anything! You take it out of the box and it can't even breathe! I mean, you can take out a coffee maker or a can opener and they work, right out of the box! What do you have to do with a computer? You have to put a "program" in it to make the stupid thing work! Then, it tells YOU what to do and where YOU are wrong! That's what happens to you and I when we watch to much T.V. and read the magazines and newspaper! We get programmed!) I wonder if people out ther were worried about such nonsense as you are before the advent of computers? Did they walk arond wondering the same? I seriously doubt it. Sounds to me like you've been watching way too many episodes of the "Matrix"!!! I like Keanu Reeves to but you're taking it to the outer limits here! I don't see you hooked up to any "bus" cable or modem. If you are we need to call out the press and Ripley's and the Guiness Book folks P.D.Q. Do you do hard core drugs? I would suggest that you get away from the "idiot box" a.k.a. "The thief in the living room" (it robs you of eyesight, health, mental ability, individuality, and more) and get into your Bible. See, when you put the Bible in, trash goes out. When you put trash in, the Bible goes out. Simple. Numbers 33:52 talks about "pictures" and God tells His people to destroy them. You can't have bad, no good, rotten, dirty, hellish thoughts, if you don't have the IMAGES up there! You have a cinema in your mind and everytime that you see something your brain clicks a snapshot of it! Ezekiel 8 talks about God telling the prophet to dig in a hole in the wall and see all the evils and abominations that the elders of Israel do. They had portrayed them on the wall in "pictures"! Sort of like a cinema-scope. Has anybody in you family tree not been human that you know of? I also know that folks in the Chinese martial arts community aren't going around worrying about that mess either. A university professor at a well-known institution of higher learning challanged his students with this question. "Did God create everything that exists?" A student bravely stood up and replied, "Yes He did." "God created everything?", the professor asked. "Yes sir, He certianly did.", the student replied.The professor answered, "If God created everything, then God created evil. And since evil exists, and according to the principal that our works define who we are, then we can assume that God is evil." The student became quiet and did not answer the professor's hypothetical definition. The professor, quite pleased with himself, boasted to the students that he had once more proven that the Christian faith was a myth. Another student raised his hand and said, "May I ask you a question professor?" "Of course.", Replied the professor. The student stood up and asked, "professor, does cold exist?" "What kind of question is this? Of course it exists. Have you never been cold?" The other students snickered at the young man's question. The young man replied, "In fact sir, cold does not exist. According to the laws of Physics, what we consider cold is in reality the absence of heat. Absolute zero (-460 F) is the total absence of heat; and all matter becomes inert and incapable of reaction at that temperature. Cold does not exist. We have created this word to describe how we feel if we have no heat. The student continued, "Professor, does darkness exist?" The professor responded, "Of course it does." The student replied, "Once again you are wrong sir, darkness does not exist either. Darkness is in reality the absence of light. You cannot measure darkness. A simple ray of light can break into a world of darkness and illuminate it. How can you know how dark a certian space is? You measure the amount of light present. Isn't this correct? Darkness is a term used by man to describe what happens when there is no light present." Finally, the young man asked the professor, "Sir, does evil exist?" Now uncertian, the professor responded, "Of course, as I have already said, we see it everyday. It is in the daily examples of man's inhumanity to man. It is in the multitude od crime and violence everywhere in the world. These manifestations are nothing else but evil." To this the studen replied, "Evil does not exist sir, or at least it does not exist unto itself. Evil is simply the absence of God. It is just like the darkness and cold, a word that man has created to describe the absence of God. God did not creat evil. Evil is a result of what happens when man does not have God's love present in his heart. It's like the cold that comes when there is no heat, or the darkness that comes when there is no light." The professor had nothing to say. Peace and God bless. Read Romans 10:9-10.

Answer 4

Actually, you really exist. I, and the rest of the answers are generated by the central mainframe computer. Don't bother telling anyone else, as they don't exist either.

Answer 5

it is impossible to prove a negative--prove that Santa Claus does not exist.

but, hey, you remind me of me when I was under 10 yo. I used to think about that kind of stuff all the time.

How do we know we are not figments of someone else's dream?
How do we know that the color I call green, you don't see as purple, but we both were taught to call that wavelength 'green'
etc,etc,

Answer 6

Cogito ergo sum - I think therefore I am.

Even if I AM just a computer subroutine, I exist as such.

Answer 7

The Matrix is real Neo, you must unplug yourself and seek the truth

Answer 8

Yea that Matrix movie was cool, but I liked ShortCircuit better.

Answer 9

I do, I don't know about you. :-)

Rene Descartes tried answering this logically with his famous sentance "Cogito, ergo sum" ("I think, therefor I am"), but I know philosophers now feel this is flawed.

Does it make a difference?

Answer 10

yes we do! if we're a program, how can we think in our own? how can we do what we've wanted to? you're not a program because you was able to think that you're a program...