Prove your existence.
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I think. Therefore, I am.
I am a conscious thinking thing, aware of my own existence. Therefore I must exist in some form.
I cannot prove to you that exist, but I can prove it to myself. If you don't believe me when I, having proven to myself that I exist, assert to you that I exist? Well, that's not my problem.
Thank you, Rene Descartes.
I am a conscious thinking thing, aware of my own existence. Therefore I must exist in some form.
I cannot prove to you that exist, but I can prove it to myself. If you don't believe me when I, having proven to myself that I exist, assert to you that I exist? Well, that's not my problem.
Thank you, Rene Descartes.
Look around your room. There is somthing missing. I took it to prove I exist. Later, I will return the item in question somewhere else in your room or perhaps another room altogether. This also confirms my existance. So there.
OT: love your avatar. It's from one of my favorite games.
OT: love your avatar. It's from one of my favorite games.
First off, figments of your imagination, if we were fragments then we'd inherently exist.
Secondly, cogito ergo sum is inherently flawed, it relies on the notion of thoughts requiring a thinker and is essentially "I exist because I exist". It proves nothing.
Thirdly we cannot. All we can say is that for all intents and purposes we may as well exist because everything else is useless.
There are various paths we can tread, from 'how else would you get the idea of me' to 'I must exist because you're not alone' and so on. In the end though we can't really definitively prove anything, that doesn't mean nothing exists, it just means we're ultimately restricted by the problem of how ridiculous the universe is, or rather how ridiculously we perceive it.
Secondly, cogito ergo sum is inherently flawed, it relies on the notion of thoughts requiring a thinker and is essentially "I exist because I exist". It proves nothing.
Thirdly we cannot. All we can say is that for all intents and purposes we may as well exist because everything else is useless.
There are various paths we can tread, from 'how else would you get the idea of me' to 'I must exist because you're not alone' and so on. In the end though we can't really definitively prove anything, that doesn't mean nothing exists, it just means we're ultimately restricted by the problem of how ridiculous the universe is, or rather how ridiculously we perceive it.
.krazykidd said:
Look at your left.
Look at your right.
Now look up.
Can you see the true meaning of life?
Then I exist. Then all of us exist.
I exist cause i interpert it as such. I exist by your interpertations because you are reading this, and accept that it wasnt spam.
If I'm a figment of anyone's imagination, they have a horrid, horrid (and pretty boring) imagination.
Because if I didn't exist as I am, then this glass bowl of cereal would fall several feet to the hard tile floor at my feet, most likely breaking, and at least spilling it's contents of milk and grain across the floor. As this has not happened, and is not happening, I posit the existence of something, me, holding it up.
I can't prove to you that I exist, but I can give you something else to worry about by using one of my favorite quotes.
All of your life could be a computer simulation, and the fact that you're allowed to consider such a possibility could mean that they're about to pull the plug on you.
If the world does not actually exist, how would you have known that? A man knows the world around him exists because he is an existential creature. If he was to exist in some kind of non-existing form, how would he have known that?
Man feels wet when he is in water because he is not a water creature. A fish would not feel wet.
Man feels wet when he is in water because he is not a water creature. A fish would not feel wet.
