im sitting here typing on the computer. but you cant see smell touch hear or taste me(unfortunately lol) so how do you know im real. how do i know that you are real for that matter.
How do you know that you are not dreaming right now, or just imagining things?
Think about this question. Im sure we all know that when we dream it all feels so real until we wake up. How can you be so sure that you are not sleeping now?
2007-02-12 04:00:48 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
well u jus wrote the question and i am replying thus u exist
2007-02-12 04:04:24 · answer #1 · answered by Andri W 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Alright, ugh, when you dream, you usually can't feel anything - I'm not talking about being scared or anxious; actually physically feeling something. So, try hitting your head on the table/wall, whichever is the closest, and let me know if you feel anything. If that doesn't work, go up to the roof, and jump of. Usually in a dream, when falling of a building, you tend to wake up. Follow the directions from above, and you let me know if you're in fact sleeping or not, I'm very interested and I'd love to know the outcome!
2007-02-12 12:07:12 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
This is the classic question of epistemology -- and the answer is no, you cannot even prove to YOURSELF that you exist.
The concept of 'I think, therefore, I am' is not even sufficient, though it survived for 300 years before Jean-Paul Sartre disproved it with, basically, what has come to be known over-simplistically as the brain in the jar scenario: How do you know that you aren't just a consequence of a program running on a computer? How can you even prove your own observations to yourself?
Since you must accept your observations of yourself axiomically, you cannot prove them and thus you cannot prove your own existence (by the very definition of 'axiom').
2007-02-12 12:08:13 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
I can't. I don't know that I'm not imagining everything. But I have to assume what I see is real for practical purposes.
2007-02-12 12:07:18 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
How am I to be sure that I even exist? I could be a figment of my own imagination. Oh well, I guess we'll never know, will we?
2007-02-12 12:04:01 · answer #5 · answered by Erin 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
If you wish to ignore objective reality, that's your choice. I know you exist because dead people can't type. Perhaps it's fortunate that I can't smell you.
2007-02-12 12:07:17 · answer #6 · answered by Paulie D 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You think, therefore you are. Even if you exist inside an atom on a dog's tail, you exist there. Even if you exist inside of my dream, you exist there. --- You think, therefore you are.
(Jesus said, "As you thinketh, so you are."
2007-02-12 12:16:17 · answer #7 · answered by MrsOcultyThomas 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's been said "I think, therefore I am." Since you are obviously thinking to post this question, you exist.
2007-02-12 12:13:12 · answer #8 · answered by Maverick 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, someone surely wrote this, and how do I know I exist? My stomach hurts. :))
2007-02-12 12:08:02 · answer #9 · answered by Cristina 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well if you don't how has this question mysteriously appeared on my screen?
2007-02-12 12:06:18 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋