You Can't Prove You Exist
 

You can't prove to me that you exist. Don't even bother, it's impossible.

You can't prove I don't.

It's generally assumed that you do. I'm questioning that assumption, not commenting on the chances that the opposite is true.

OK

By acknowledging your attempt not to bother, you implicitly legitimze your subconscious desire to bother.

You said "don't even bother" not "don't want to bother." Part of me wants to bother, but I see the futility, so I won't bother.

Oh, and who's words are you reading right now?

Shit! I attempted to convince you I exist. Damnit!

To whom are you addressing this?

I can prove I exist, but only to myself, not to you.

In fact, it is the only provable thing there is.

Well, I'm the only one present. If my boss walks in, this window goes away.

And yet you keep talking to me.

You keep creating those threads.

You keep listening for me to reply.

Your refusal to accept the proof does not negate the proof.









Besides, I don't exist. How's that possible?

I am neither talking nor listening.

I wrote and erased a reply saying basically that proof itself is delusion. You seem to feel otherwise. How does one go about proving one's own existance.

Does proof require a concrete statement of the conditions that are to be met, therefore a total knowledge of the subject under consideration, therefore an impossible omniscience; in other words, is proof impossible? If we attempt proof of a limited data set, do we ignore the interrelationships it has with it's surroundings?

If existance is a delusion, then I am the deluded thing.