How do you know that you are? Can you prove your being?

Answer 1

Dadhichi

This is a predicament that we are seeking the proof of our existence from others. For them we exist as tables, books, trees, mountains exist for them. Their knowledge about your existence is always a second hand knowledge.

In sixteenth century Descarte also fell prey to the same predicament. He deduced his existence on the basis of objective – doubting method and said – cogito ergo sum; meaning thereby he deduced his existence from his cognition.

For you your existence is subjective and you seek an objective proof of it?

This aspect of your question is suffering from that REASON-MANIA which was originated in European thinking in fifteenth century and was buried by Schrödinger in mid of the twentieth century.

Reason is a small faculty amongst the multiple ones endowed by the nature/evolution/god to the human beings. No reason can prove your being. It can support your beingness in the eyes of others.

Better you go through the articles on my website http://www.lightinlife.com/index.php .

There are several articles which will remove your doubts regarding your temptations of objective reason in proof of your existence.



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Answer 2

First, you assume that you are, are you? No, we can't prove our existence because we see the world through our imperfect senses, a filter. Time is a factor. The future we can not see, the past is gone. So the present moves from the future to the past, so in reality, whatever that is, the present is an illusion and non-existent. Go figure. As we communicate, we are assuming a lot about existence.

Answer 3

Sure. I do every day as as an artist. I give being to things that never were before thus effecting their existence and being, the visible proof of my being its cause. Anyone does that in writing their signature uniquely.

Answer 4

Knowing exists. Whether there is an 'I' behind this phenomena is a matter of opinion. One which I do not hold.

I do not say I don't exist, for that would be negating something I never assented to.

Existence and non-existence do not apply.

Answer 5

For those who know me, know of my existence, and to those who don't? Won't know that I exist, nor will they exist to me as a being. But, one who has great influence can exist by name, when he or she is no longer a being.

Answer 6

data storage is becoming a huge environmental problem. This proof stays around for far too long. So much for proof.

Answer 7

because you can think, Rene Descartes said " i think therefore I am." It is because of our rationality that we are separated from all other animals. Plato said that our ability to concot rationality is the reason we are so uniquely alive.

Answer 8

I exist, am pretty sure about that. What i can't say is that if other people really exist or they just my imagination

Answer 9

How many times must this question be asked in this forum? So far, at least 107,907 times.

Answer 10

Are you consuming food? Then you 'are'...food being any number of substances, from what we put into our mouths to what we put into our brains.