How do we really know that we exist?
By WGDrosos
@WGDrosos (8)
United States
November 27, 2012 4:13pm CST
If we merely came into existence. Not knowing how we suddenly got to where we were. If there wasn't anyone else to discuss our coming into being with. If we didn't know what our surroundings were. If there were no literature on any history of existence. If we just arose out of the unknown into another unknown, could we inherently know that we exist. Or is our existence dependent upon ourselves, acting as mirrors for each other?
2 responses
@randomarts09 (1405)
• Indonesia
27 Nov 12
I agree that no human can prove the exsistance of others and of any surrouding matter. But in my opinion the fact we have thought and are able to control how we feel, to a certain extent, pushes the fact we must be in exsistance. We therefore exsist in our minds, but can never be sure whether there is a world or if it is all within our heads. To take for example the concept of a video game. When you walk around the corner the scenery suddenly appears. Our our minds doing the same to us!?. I think that we will always strive to know the truth, and rightly so, but we shall never come to a satisfying conclusion. the philosophical imgination of the pure mind cannot known of onefs true existence, yet man will stop at nothing to acknowledge the fact that him, himself is only but a figment in imagination. Boundaries exist because man believe they exist, everything we see, inherit, we capture with our eyes and yet we truly see the world for what it is, everything, rational being or misunderstood is the center gravityonal pull from the depths of the mind and only the righteous onesfs with belittle senses can justify the true of our existence. Technology has provided a kind of tunnel, or in simplest term a way of letting us know if we actually exist and what is beyond our control.
@stk40m (1118)
• Koeln, Germany
27 Nov 12
we know that we exist since we have senses and feelings. Pain for example is a good method to find out that you exist. The famous ''pinch me'' effect. And if there's noone to pinch you you could also pinch yourself. Another famous check is ''Cogito ergo sum'' = ''I think, thus I am.''.
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