How do we prove that we exist?

Never mind, I checked my last posts, and found the board... it said nothing was posted in 120 days... what's up with that?

table crash on the database last night. Fixing it obviously screwed a few things up.

i exist

Prove it :P

I just did, you saw my post, replied to it, therefore I exist. My interaction with the world and your ability to interact proves that I exist, even if it is all in my head, it is still existence.

unless you're a bot?

Yes, but all this interaction is because we're using the internet......maybe we're all connected to a super computer controlling our life's as we see it :P

Replying to #87

Then we exist, even if it is only through the internet. I play games on my computer, download ROMs, they exist don't they?

technically no, software has no 'existence' as such because it is intangible.

0's and 1's man, 0's and 1's........

Loonylion · #89technically no, software has no 'existence' as such because it is intangible.

if you can interact with it, then surely it exists, it can change your mood, your perception of time and your knowledge. Surely that means that it exists, even if only as magnetic charges on a disk?

Would if I had a dream with a person that died? I would be interacting with them, it would change my mood, so forth, so on. Does that mean they exist? Nope.

Replying to #92

So dreams don't exist? When you think you dream, you don't actually have a dream? Just because you can't touch something, doesn't mean it doesn't exist.

Okay, don't even start suggesting that dreams exist, they're obviously just random memories put together by our brain and nothing more.And I wasn't asking if the dream existed, I was (rhetorically) asking if the dead person did.

Replying to #94

Not random. If they were random it wouldn't be possible to have recurring dreams.

Well I guess they're really put together by your subconscious. I can't recall ever having a recurring dream before.

So you don't believe your thoughts exist? That when you wonder "Do we exist?" You're not really thinking it? Surely by trying to prove that you exist, proves that you exist, on some level anyway.

I heard about a theory saying that they is another planet and on that planet, there are people that look exactly like us and doing the exact same things that we do. I heard about it, but I dont believe it

gaynorvader · #97So you don't believe your thoughts exist? That when you wonder "Do we exist?" You're not really thinking it? Surely by trying to prove that you exist, proves that you exist, on some level anyway.

Trying to prove that we exist is like asking George Bush to recite the Constitution, it can't be done.

or asking him the 10 commandments.