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When you say you don't exist are you referring to your sense of self identity? i.e your ego, the feeling that your mind and body and all of your senses, emotion

When you say you don't exist are you referring to your sense of self identity? i.e your ego, the feeling that your mind and body and all of your senses, emotions, thoughts and memories are a distinct entity? This idea is very interesting, and not considered strange in philosophy (ego death) and is also prevalent in Buddhism: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anatt%C4%81 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anatt%C4%81

qwerty456127 5y ago
Yes, kind of. I'm pretty sure I am neither my ego nor my body. But besides the body and the ego (the ego being a product of the body) no thing which could be reasonably called me physically exists. I am a rational kind so even if I believed in immortal soul in the Christian sense and could imagine an ethereal projection of my body retaining my memories going to some heaven after my body death, I would still understand the heaven as a physical place existing in spaces beyond reach of today measurement instruments and scientific reasoning of today. Therefore that would still be another body of mine, made of different sort of particles, existing physically (there is no way to exist nonphysically, physicality is a synonym to existence). But not me.
- antihipocrat 5y ago
  Does the universe exist? If so, then the atoms that comprise your body also exist, and defining your body as a distinct object within the universe is categorical.
  - qwerty456127 5y ago
    > Does the universe exist? This is hardly possible to rationally give a logically true answer to this question. I would say it does because despite being unable to tell their nature reliably, despite the fact all we perceive is just a representation of what is, we can observe the fact phenomena (any) take place and if something happens it has to happen to something. Even an illusion, a hallucination, has some physical existence (e.g. in form of a pattern of chemicals and electrical currents in the neurons). Nothing unreal exists © (except the Unreal Tournament).

qwerty456127 5y ago

Yes, kind of. I'm pretty sure I am neither my ego nor my body. But besides the body and the ego (the ego being a product of the body) no thing which could be reasonably called me physically exists. I am a rational kind so even if I believed in immortal soul in the Christian sense and could imagine an ethereal projection of my body retaining my memories going to some heaven after my body death, I would still understand the heaven as a physical place existing in spaces beyond reach of today measurement instruments and scientific reasoning of today. Therefore that would still be another body of mine, made of different sort of particles, existing physically (there is no way to exist nonphysically, physicality is a synonym to existence). But not me.

antihipocrat 5y ago
Does the universe exist? If so, then the atoms that comprise your body also exist, and defining your body as a distinct object within the universe is categorical.
- qwerty456127 5y ago
  > Does the universe exist? This is hardly possible to rationally give a logically true answer to this question. I would say it does because despite being unable to tell their nature reliably, despite the fact all we perceive is just a representation of what is, we can observe the fact phenomena (any) take place and if something happens it has to happen to something. Even an illusion, a hallucination, has some physical existence (e.g. in form of a pattern of chemicals and electrical currents in the neurons). Nothing unreal exists © (except the Unreal Tournament).