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 How Do You Know You Exist? (24)

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How Do You Know You Exist?

think logically on this one. HOW do you know? what do you use to justify that you exist at this moment in this very point in time?  what are your qualifications as existing?

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4 points

Cogito Ergo Sum

that's how.

Side: Cogito Ergo Sum
2 points

Who's voting this down?

It's latin for "I THINK THEREFOR I AM".

Look this up: "Discourse on the Method" by René Descartes

I came here to say the exact same thing.

Side: Cogito Ergo Sum
2 points

Des Cartes! that's the name i was looking for!

haha. I forgot where I had seen that quote before and was going insane looking for it. xD

Side: Cogito Ergo Sum
3 points

Maybe I do not really exist. What if there is nothing outside of the USA. That everyone I know that is from out of the country really isn't. Maybe I am on another Truman show! I know I exist just becuase I have felt pain before, I have touched others, I have had disagreements. I have learned in school.

Side: Truman Show

Well, I know I exist.... I'm just not sure you exist. For all I know you're just a Pygmy of my imagination.

Side: Truman Show
3 points

a what? What's a Pygmy?

and trust me, i DO exist. i know i exist because I have the ability to question whether or not i exist.

what about that tonicole girl? is SHE real? because if she is i might just lose my head cuz she's a dancer of my FAVORITE dance group since last year. is she? and i'm being totally serious. i'll totally be a huge fan of hers if she is. xD

Side: Truman Show
freeknotgeek(30) Disputed
2 points

i think they mean figment.

Side: Truman Show

I have no idea if I really exist. I'm having fun, my life rocks, so if this is all just fake, who the fuck cares? I'm still leading a good life, even if it is fake. Also, I've always had a secret fear of oh no what if I'm on the Truman Show too? AAAAAAAAAAHHHHHH but recently I punched somebody in the face, and either they're really good actors, or it's real :P

Side: I dont
3 points

HEY! (: that's for being a good contributor to this discussion. (and i really mean it, i'm not being sarcastic). I like it when people unlike whatshisface actually ANSWERS questions with their opinion rather than a condescending comment.

Side: I dont
2 points

I'm sure I don't exist in the way that I think I do. There's a lot more doing on than what I can see, and by that I am not suggesting there exists a god or "spiritual" realm of existence. The way that I see, smell, touch, etc. are all extremely weak, the same is true for every one of you.

Look at what you are made of, physically. Look with your eyes first, and then do some research, what are you really like on the inside? Think about this, you think you know yourself so well, but chances are you'll never see the heart that keeps you alive. You'll never know that part of you that keeps you alive as well as you know, say, you're iPod. You're made of of cells, and before those cells, millions and millions and millions and billions of years of evolution. Every cell in your body is a faculty of the first life form... where did that come from? Some say that life began with nothing more than a simple arrangement of minerals and the right environment. Something completely abundant in the universe. If that is true, then the universe should be teaming with life. Whatever the case though, if life is a completely natural occurrence produced by the universe and it's operations, or if you believe in god, there is the question of "How did the universe come to be"... if that's not a big enough question, what was here before the universe? What was here before god? Was god always here? All of the questions really fuck with your idea of existence.

If there is no god, how is there something for me to witness? Was it always here? If so, if the universe has just always been here, then that means there was never at any time, nothing. If the universe didn't always exist, then where did it come from, and where did the existence that caused the universe come from? Ultimately though, the question is too big. Even on a sub atomic level, the information seems to stretch infinitely small, and large, or in any other way, it is infinite. There are absolutes, look at gravity, magnetism, light, space, time. There is either, an absolute existence, or there is a finite existence.

The point is, there is no way to know whether or not anything exists, or how it exists... but you know that you exist because you're experiencing existence.

Side: I dont
ChoiceMad Disputed
1 point

If one believes in one's Existence, it is because one holds faith (subconsciously or otherwise) in one's belief of one's perception. Simply experiencing beliefs cannot be accounted for as 'proof' of one's Existence because experiences are easily distracted, manipulated, etc.

If you believe Existence is true (or truth) then you are believing in your perception of truth. Truth is always solely based on faith in belief of perception.

belief in Existence = belief in perception = belief in truth

i.e.:

Existence = perception = truth (all based on faith in belief)

Also IMO, everything that exists shares the same 'will' because nothing that exists is separate from Existence (to include the nuclei of atoms). Only ideals have been discovered by us to be 'inanimate'. I stand by my beliefs because I have yet to discover a belief system which makes more sense.

Side: I dont
1 point

So long as I get where I'm going it doesn't matter to me if I exist or not. All that matters is me and my future. (:

Side: It Don't Matter

When I look in a mirror, I see that I exist and I am much relieved ;)

Side: It Don't Matter
1 point

Well, If I don't exist I guess I don't have much to worry about.

The question doesn't make much sense to me.

The real question is how do we know what is real? It could be like the matrix.

So, how do I know which question is "the real question" and which doesn't make sense? But then again that is just my opinion. So how do I know what my opinion is, or if it is real. Or is my opinion just data coming from a machine in the matrix. How do I know if the movie the matrix is a movie and my life is real? Or if my life is a movie and the matrix is a real. But then, how do I know real is real. How do I know that reality is not imagination and that imagination is not reality. ...and so on and so forth...

Side: what is real
1 point

HEY BULLSHIT FOR ATTACKING THE QUESTION U JUST WASTED TIME COMMENTING SHIT. ITS A GOOD QUESTION AND IVE BEEN THINKING BOUT IT SOME TIME. HOW DO U KNOW THAT THE PERSENT REALLY IS NOW? THINK ABOUT IT..10 YEARS FROM NOW WE MIGHT BE DEAD(GOD FORBID) AND THIS WOULD THEN BE THE PAST!! U C WHEN WE THINK OF THE PRESENT WE DON'T ACKNOWLEDGE THE PAST FOR ONCE BEING THE PRESENT-WHICH IN MY BOOK DOESN'T EXIST COX THE PRESENT IS FOREVER CREATING PAST. IF YOU TAKE A PHOTO NOW ITS ALREADY IN THE PAST AND THE TIME IS GONE. THEY SAY EVEN BEFORE THE BEGINNING OF TIME THERE WAS NO TIME..EVEN BEFORE THE BEGINNING THERE WAS NO LIGHT, BUT THINK, HOW THE HELL COULD THERE HAVE NOT BEEN LIGHT OR DO THEY MEAN THERE WAS NO SOURCE OF LIGHT? THE BEGINNING OF THE UNIVERSE WILL NEVER BE SOLVED AND IF THE STUPID SCIENTISTS WILL JUST LISTEN TO WHAT THEY ARE SAYING ABOUT ABOUT THE BIG BANG THEORY THEY WILL HEAR HOW ONE-SIDED IT ACTUALLY IS..WELDON MEYERS

Side: what is real
1 point

You exist because you have memories and you know who you are and you have human senses. If you did not exist, you would have some difficulty storing all that info from your early days. If you really want to know more about the theory of reality, research Rene Descartes.

Side: what is real
1 point

I know only with in the realms of my perception, and I'm okay with that knowledge, because as it stands that's all I can affect anyway.

Side: what is real

Um... my thoughts are separate from others. I feel pain. I don't know... ThePyg's argument is probably the best one that explains it.

Side: what is real
0 points

I know I exist because people talk to me, and I know that they aren't just made up because they don't always say what I want them to or be nice to me.

I don't know if that makes sense or not.

Side: I hear the voices
-1 points

Oh man, another freak question. I know I exist because my heart is beating right now while I type this god damn message on the computer.

Side: I hear the voices
2 points

God, see that's why you're my enemy! Stupid, ignorant comments like this one!

Side: I dont
MBurke12(81) Disputed
0 points

Well you see, the word exist means to live and everybody knows if anything breathes it is considering living. And I'm glad you're my enemy because I hate freaks like you that come up with these stupid questions because they feel they have some sort of intellect to prove someone else wrong. Just shut up and stop you're, "see that computer in front of you.. ooooooo... how do you know it's really there????? Spoooooooky", bullshit.

Side: I dont