How can you prove that you exist?

Question

Maybe you dont exist

Understand this. You do not exist before you are born and you don not exist after you die. In the middle you have conciousness.

If you had no concioussness you would not exist. When you die, you do not exist.

Answer 1

Hee Hee!

Vivi said the exact same thing in Final Fantasy IX.

I can't prove that I exist, maybe I am the figment of somebodies imagination.

Answer 2

It's true. I may not exist. You may not exist. I might be a brain in a laboratory jar imagining all of this. So might you. Kind of like The Matrix.

Trippy.

Descartes didn't know what he was talking about. It very well could be that "life is but a dream." :-)

Answer 3

technically, you can't.
since everything is based upon the idea of the atom, were the atom to be an illusion, all that is created from it would be as well.
do you trust your mind? your mind is a product of the environment as you cannot learn without an outside source. never been introduced to language, logic is impossible. if you're blind from birth, thinking in visions of color and shape is limited to non-existent. all we really are are automated collections of memories, natural computers (the computer was modeled after our own minds) believing we have unlimited choice, when it is really limited to the choices we know of.

There is no reason to not believe life is but a dream...everything we sense is really a mental reproduction of light, sound, etc waves. In order to not be able to grow in the slightest, you'd have to be absent any and all nervous system functions...including feeling, and feeling yourself...you'd have to be dead.

since your memories are born as you experience the world, (even your memory of yourself persists from your birth forward), since all knowledge is learned after birth, and the body is a natural machine subjected to sustaining its life from an outside source of food, water, etc there is no soul, no ghosts, no spirits, etc....
there is only the environment as a whole and the belief you're separate from it (even you NOT interacting with it affects it).
thus, for anything to be real, all has to be real, and anything false, all has to be false.

Answer 4

The IRS knows I exist. The credit card companies know I exist. The mortgage company knows I exist. My husband knows I exist. My kids definately know I exist because if I didn't they wouldn't be here. So I'm pretty confident that I exist... :)

Answer 5

you don't know.

maybe I'm just a computer construct like tron who will one day take over the internet and place you all in a bunch of games with bad graphics where you play for your life or die.

Answer 6

Cogito ergo sum.

I know thatI exist. I can not say the same for you.

If you are not just a figment of my imagination, then you can know that you exist, but you can not say the same for me.


Follow the white rabbit.

Answer 7

My question to you is... how do you know all of us exist? You said that there is nothing after death? How do you know I am not a spirit from a dead person? I will pull your leg tonight when you're sleeping...

Answer 8

Have you ever been in the same room with me after I have had a chili burrito? If you had....there would be no question about my existence. You would know.

Answer 9

So what you're saying is that there's only ONE person and everything/everyone here is all just a dream to that one person.

Interesting.

But I think I saw that happen on "Dallas" and the final episode of "Newhart."

Answer 10

Conventionally I exist based on labels I give myself and which others give me, however beyond that I'd say we all lack inherent existence, so in a way, the "you", "I", "me" doesn't exist like that.

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