Can you prove you exist? ?

Question

Intelligent answers please.

Answer 1

wellll, If you can see yourself and you get sick and die and......wait was I talking about again? oh yea. If you believe in stars and circles in the sky. YOU THINK TO MUCH ABOUT SCIENCE.......hehehehe geek. oh and,How do YOU know we don't exist. WHOA!!!!!! THIS IS THE BEST ANSWER HERE!!!!

Answer 2

Yes,i think therefore i am,okay it could be just one big dream but the evidence for that is extremely thin and a collective dream with the whole of humanity in it is hard to believe.It could be something like the matrix.

Answer 3

Very simple:

I exist because other people say I exist because they recognize me and interact with me. Otherwise I would be a ghost and therefore I wouldn't exist.

Existence of self is relative to others in terms that other have to recognize you to exist to you to exist in the very sense of existence.

Answer 4

Other people seem to think I do

Answer 5

no, but it doesn't really matter

Answer 6

I, more than 'exist'.  I "live"!  :D

Answer 7

Everyone that exists, has a life.

I have a life, therefore, I exist.

Answer 8

The fact that I'm writing this proves to you that I exist. As far as I know myself, I have a body, emotions and a mind, all of which I identify myself as, and that means I exist. I don't know what it would be like without having a body to know I exist. Emotions and thoughts are somewhat ethereal and relative, so I don't identify that much with them. But my body is a pretty solid fact, however much it's just colliding atoms or nothing at all, nothing still exist, even if it exist as non-existence.

Answer 9

...april 15...i always do...

Answer 10

I'm here physically breathing and really exist.

Answer 11

By assuming the negative, that I don't exist , to be false, by virtue of the fact that I am replying to your question, I have proved indubitably that I must exist.

Answer 12

I think it is self-evident that SOMETHING exists. Whether the Something includes "you" is a matter of definition, or perhaps of choice.

Answer 13

"I think therefore I am" - thank you Descartes!

I am having thoughts at the moment and even if I can doubt everything else i.e. other people and the world around me, I can at least guarantee that there is something, called me, that exists to be decieved.

Answer 14

get up in the morning . look in the newspaper, see if your named in the obituaries...if not then you exist....lol

From a Christian standpoint.... god has given me the ingredients to become a living soul, that is  His breath of life <spirit> + a body to dwell in

= that equals a living soul, take either away and I would cease to exist.

I can preform the functionary tasks to survive, ie. breathing, eating, thinking, etc.

so by definition ... yes I exist.

but to live, that is an other question entirely ... God gave us the gift of free will < to do what we want> and our gift to god is what you do with it....   Me I choose to live my life for him, and in doing so I become "alive"    a whole complete soul, at peace truly and deep down inside.... < undescribable feeling>  I now more than exist...I have focus, a purpose , and most of all a loving and caring God who meets my needs with his riches and glory, AMen.

Answer 15

if u cut yourself and your blood flows freely... i guess thats proof

Answer 16

I can think therefore I am. Or I can doubt therefore I am. - Rene Descartes

Answer 17

     You could look at the philosophical theory of Idealism.  That we live in the mind and that our existence is false.  Now that's a very basic explanation.

     Wouldn't be a bad idea to write "Idealism" in your search, and go onto Wikipedia.  It gives chapter and verse on this.

Good luck

Mike B

Answer 18

You first have to define the word "exist" and what kind of attribute you consider something as to "existing".

"Cogito ergo sum." - Rene Descartes.

"I think, therefore i am."

I can prove that i exist to myself, but i cannot to you with this kind of reasoning unless i can prove to you that i can think(like at this instant), but if you think that is not a good enough proof for you then i will offer tangible evidence like my body. If that does not suffice you, im afraid i cant.

Answer 19

Only the fact that I wish I didn't.