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Selina asked:

Do I exist...more generally, do we exist? If so, how can we possibly prove this, in accordance to
everything around us that supposedly exists as well?

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Do you exist? Well, I'll tell you what... you tell me what you mean by "exist" and I'll answer your
question. How about that?

What does it even mean to ask that question? Doesn't your asking it imply some sort of existence? If
not, why not? If you can question your existence and you don't exist, then who's asking? Who is
asking whom? What are you doing?

Or maybe you're just trying to puzzle the "philosophers" here? Hey, whatever. But I, or anyone else
here, is not going to give you a better answer than to ask you how it is you can ask that, or any other
question, if you don't "exist" in the first place, in some sense of that term.

Steven Ravett Brown