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How do you know this with absolute certainty?

• adastra22 3y ago
  That I exist as a thinking, feeling, observing entity? That’s kinda self-evident, no?
  • joquarky 3y ago
    The trick with this is that most people do not question what "I" refers to in such a statement.
    • adastra22 3y ago
      I don't see how that is relevant? I exist as a conscious, thinking, feeling, perceiving entity. Y'all might be NPCs but I know I exist, whatever the hell that means. Nothing you can say will ever convince me otherwise: I have direct knowledge that I experience conscious awareness. Ergo, I have an existence proof that consciousness exists, because I myself am an example of it. Anyone arguing that consciousness doesn't exist is going to get a dry smirk from me and a sad shake of the head. I know otherwise. What "I" am in the larger sphere of things doesn't even enter into this.
      • kukkeliskuu 3y ago
        If you have decided that nothing anybody says will convince you otherwise, then you are not approaching the issue with an open mind and that is not a very fruitful way to learn. At the root here is the very basic observation from psychology and neuroscience that we cannot trust our thinking of our memory about our experience. You don’t need to believe that observation. If you are open to learning, you can make experiments on yourself to convince yourself that this is the case. But if you are unwilling to openly approach the question whether all those scientists might have a point, of course there is nothing that can be done.