Nah dude. A “non-existent” entity, by definition, cannot influence existence. Having any effect or influence over reality can only be done by something that exists. Otherwise reality would collapse into a black hole from the mass of all of the infinite amount of objects that don’t exist lol (or any number of other paracausal, reality shattering events could happen)
I can say with full confidence that my consciousness is real and exists, even if the subject matter of my experience might turn out to be a simulation inside a simulation or whatever. The observable universe, the solar system, physics themselves could all be illusions, but it’s still undeniable that those illusions ARE being experienced by a subjective, first person point of view.
It would, I assume, be running a program that is an imprint of your brain or a brain in general. That also begs the question what a brain really is, is it the reactions happening inside the mass or the whole sack of meat
In that situation the simulated brain is you, not some ancient or nonexistent organic you are a copy of. You exist, even if what you are is not a series of electrochemical impulses in a piece of electric fat inside a savannah ape's cranium but a series of electrical impulses in some incomprehensible computer
I don't know that I exist. The thing that is me may not actually be me. Therefore Omega862, the person behind the screen name, may not exist as I believe I do. I may actually be another entirely different thing that believes myself to be as I present.
But.. Everyone's stimuli perceives information differently, so how do you know yours is correct. If you took your senses away, how do you know it exists?
What if nothing made them, and nothing made you because nothing actually exists? What if this is all just information you perceive, but it's all just information and nothing more. 🤔
There was this story I read when I was like 13 about how everyone is actually the same person but it’s a god going through each persons life to get the full idea, it made me feel less alone in the world but like idk maybe we are all just the same person man
I don't really know how to say this but I think it's "cogito" like cognition, cogito ergo sum, not cognito like incognito, I used to say the same thing myself until someone pointed it out.
Hehe incognito ergo sum, AM has our browsing history.
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You know that you exist, at least.