Do we even exist???

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maberl's picture
Do we even exist???

"It's just in their minds" is what is usually said about those believing in god and religion, well how about this.....

Someone once asked me that how do you know that the memory you have about the past really happened and is not a fed in picture like anything imaginable or a dream.

If you have started to get what i am trying to say then you clearly know that our PAST is also something just in our minds.

Lately I have been thinking about this so deeply.I do not see the reality of existence anything more than a thought. What we are doing right now ceases to exist the very next moment, becomes past and is left just in our minds or thoughts. Our mind works by taking live input through our senses and process it based on what is in our memory, this is the only way we understand what is happening and act accordingly. And I believe we all know how our thinking and actions are biased based on what has been fed to our minds knowing or unknowingly, direct or indirectly.

I am NOT talking about how to know whether we are awake, alive or sleeping.

Reality for us is how our minds understand and interpret our surrounding experiences or is it anything outside of our minds/thoughts.....DO WE EVEN EXIST???? and whose thoughts are we in anyway???As these names given to us are merely there to identify our faces and physical bodies. These are not the names of the thoughts we have. If my thoughts are transferred to your body and yours taken out then I am you, You are not you anymore.

I think there is no real answer to this it is just a twisted question or thought, a gap of understanding or knowledge where god does not fit anymore.

ANYONE KNOW ANY BOOKS about this can also tell the name and writer....really appreciated

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Mitch's picture
You could read Descartes'
Jeff Vella Leone's picture
I have given a lot of thought
Nyarlathotep's picture
Jeff - "Energy is radiating
Jeff Vella Leone's picture
Ignore anything this guys
Travis Hedglin's picture
"Nuh-uh, you're wrong!"
Nyarlathotep's picture
I just want to know why you
ThePragmatic's picture
@Jeff
Travis Hedglin's picture
Oh, I love me some ad hominem
Travis Hedglin's picture
I am going to ask a couple of
Travis Paskiewicz's picture
I'd suggest Allan Watts. He's
Travis Hedglin's picture
Do I exist? Yes, the very
maberl's picture
FOUND AN INTERESTING ARTICLE
Pitar's picture
The non-extant hypothesis
Jeff Munroe's picture
We exist for the sole purpose
Dino Boshnjak's picture
The default setting of
skepdicks's picture
Whether we are just small

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