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I think existence is exactly what a lot of people tend to believe it to be. It's just the act of being a functioning human being who can process a "conscious". I think we might be in control of ourselves a little bit less than we like to think due to the chemical functions in our brain that more or less effect our actions and possibly even our conscious, but yeah it's pretty much what we already believe it to be. The whole idea that "I think, therefore I am" raises questions about other people's existences is pointless, because even if we could somehow scientifically prove some of these age old questions about ourselves you can never really directly prove in the existence of anything. Someone presented with evidence that a human exists could still say it doesn't because of x and y reasons,and you can't really "disprove" that, just like you can't prove those crazy "we're in the matrix!" theories. Ultimately though we're lucky that for most people the mere act of seeing a human is enough to believe in their existence.

When you die you die.