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by smlckz 1055 days ago
Then you arrive at questions such as "Why do we exist?", even "Why anything exists at all, what was the need for all of this?"

> Why do we feel that we exist? Who does the feeling part?

There’s the non-helpful answer “I think, therefore I am.” I don’t think there’s any good answer to these questions. We can think about ourselves, we can think about existence, so we feel we exist? Let us imagine a person can not receive any external stimuli, can not send any instruction to control the movement of body, [e.g. a brain with blood circulation to keep it alive, but no input/output], in awakened state, now what should they feel? [Such a horrible state!] It seems they should feel their existence only on the basis of the functioning of their brain.