Existence - Do I have it?

Well. The time has come where I shall follow the trend and make a blog. You may know me from such places as:

a) The Internet (www.youtube.com/thatoddguywithaface   @OddGuyWithFace)
b) Real (whatever that is) Life
c) You don't know me and you just feel like reading a blog, which I suppose is a perfectly normal thing to do in this day and age

Anyway in this blog I shall write about various things. They may be light hearted, or they may be... quite the opposite. Well I figured seeing as this is the first blog and I don't want to be too hard on you I'd go for the nice light hearted topic of Whether The Hell I Exist And If Not What The F**K Am I Meant To Do With My Life! Or in short: Existence - Do I have it?

The first person a lot of people talk about when the question of existence is brought up is Mr Rene Descarte (or as we shall now know him: R-Dawg). R-Dawg made some interesting points about existence in his meditations, the most famous of which is this:

Cogito, ergo sum
Je pense donc je suis
I think therefore I am

What R-Dawg did in his meditations was essentially get rid of all of the knowledge that he doubted and then try and build up what he knew from there. Ultimately it turned out that, as almost everything we know is perceived through the senses, which as we all know can fool us (ever waved to someone you thought you recognised?) and thus can be thrown into doubt  and all the other stuff (maths, colour etc) must come from the outside of what we know (which might all be a dream) that the only thing that doesn't totally mess with our brain and make us doubt is our own existence

                                                         I Think Therefore I Am

So basically if we can think about all these complicated things then we must therefore exist, because somewhere something (whether it is our physical body or not) is getting incredibly confused by all these strange thoughts and that thinking thing is us.

So there we have it. I exist. In fact I'm absolutely certain that I exist. The problem of course comes in relation to whether all of you exist. I know 100% that I am a thinking thing. How do I know that you are a thinking thing also? Well just as I can't know if you see colour in the same way I see colour, there IS NO BLOODY WAY FOR ME TO KNOW IF YOU ARE A THINKING THING!

So to conclude:

• I exist
• You might not
• All of our brains hurt (or do they)

That was my first blog, I hope you're still feeling okay (if you exist!)

Michael Lewis

ThatOddGuyWithaFace