Does life exist outside of the mind?

Answer 1

No, before human beings existed with their "minds" there was no life anywhere on the earth.

Now do you see how ridiculous that question is?

Answer 2

The "Enlightened ones/Realized ones" would say that the mind is a sort of 'programmed energy' and is often the cause of much of our suffering.

The mind is important when it is relegated to the mundane tasks of paying bills, making appointments, getting us from here to there, but the mind is a trouble maker when it gets involved in the emotions. It stirs up problems/dramas and causes unnecessary suffering.

There are countless galaxies in a vastness that is incomprehensible...we are microscopic in comparison...if that.

The mind and it's 'stories' ultimately means nothing...just a weird kind of entertainment for the creature.

Contentment, naturalness, love, arises when the mind with all of it's endless chatter is ignored. The noise in the head stifles our natural joy.

Answer 3

The real question is: Could there be a purpose for there to be a mind were there not a real space-time universe outside of it?
The Latin phrase "cogito ergo sum" is nonsense.
The phrase needs to be, "I am--the universe is; I'm in it--therefore I must think."
Thinking means learning how to define everything by its prioritized internal-functional characteristics, 5--6 of them, instead of by mere appearances; and by learning to check your definitions of normative states of natural and man-made objects against reality, to see if your ideas are true or not.
It is this fundamental honesty about acknowledging and acting on what you really KNOW as science and what you only hope or believe you know, quite separately, that matters to your assertion of selfhood in reality space-time. This honesty is what prevents you from 'lying to yourself' or 'pretending', and therefore from engaging in Postmodernist denial, rejection or falsification of reality.
This what lets you reprogram your emotions so they are useful to you as you deal with things positive and negative--valuable and harmful--important and unimportant, long-term and short-term. This is what lets you take charge of your own life and eventually to deal with others as a trader of values, not a dictator or slave.
It tells you to talk ideas with someone who takes categorizing concepts seriously; it tells you who you can work for an not.

The only thing it can't do is give you a country of honest leader-protectors of rights and honest fellow citizens. It's the key to personal efficacy and happiness on Earth, but it can;t put a nation of selves in place--that's your political and philosophical job for as long as you live: to fight for the right sort of definitions, non-fictional information regulations, marketplaces, rights and evaluational standards. If these aren't in place, as they have not been for over a century and have not been at all since 1994, then you'll have a purpose in life: to think for yourself, as yourself.
You'll have to live in the real world and use you mind to do the living by.

Answer 4

If you mean does the soul continue after death, yes. If you mean is life a figment of the mind, no.

Answer 5

All the living creatures outside my mind would probably think so...if they (all) could.

Answer 6

That's up to you. Life is what you make it.

Answer 7

Yes.....with the exception of certain parts of New Jersey.

hahaha......(apologies to Woody Allen).

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Answer 8

That depends on how you are defining "the mind".

Answer 9

everything we use

Answer 10

Life exist all over the place. Duh.