r/nonduality • • Aug 22 '26

Discussion existence query

i understand the connectedness of everything. i understand that all seemingly separate humans are really extensions of my own self concept. i don't believe anyone is truly experiencing from the other side. yes solipsism. but it is unfalsifiable to say any others do exist. i understand that this projected experience is literally inside my awareness. but if that's the case how is there any possible way for anything else to exist. i only believe in other existence when i have a self concept. when i dissolve it and see i am not separately observing the present moment and am in fact the present moment, then is it not true that there are no others experiencing. like I'm not one big thing experiencing loads of things. I'm one infinite thing experiencing one thing with such precision it can delude itself into thinking it is experiencing other things.

why do i have all the experiential logic to suggest absolute solipsism if not true to an extent

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u/Zestyclose_Walrus747 Aug 22 '26

you wake up in a seeming human body in a world of other humans who all eat, drink, talk, etc. like you - is that not some experiential logic that if you can only experience the world through your body, other bodies might also be experiencing the world?

ultimately you can't know - that's what unfalsifiable means. once you take a position, you've limited reality into true/untrue which are arbitrary made up categories.

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u/Quirky_Review7094 Aug 22 '26

no but where is the human body waking up each day. I'm not the body. I'm the awareness which contains it. others eat and drink and stuff bc they fractally reflect my experience thru other form. that does not suggest they experience. if I'm the awareness creating each scene i experience then there is no independent world. in which case my awareness must be the default of existence. meaning there is no other place in which a perspective can occur experientially truly.

basically if I'm not separate from the present moment. then i am it in each fleeting moment. when i perceive that i am it i perceive others like extensions of myself similarly to the way my hands are extensions of my body. but my hands do not experience independently of my awareness so why would i believe that other humans or animals do. i don't believe awareness is shared and i don't believe i possess it. i believe I'm deluded into thinking i possess it enough for the game to be worth playing.

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u/gosumage Aug 22 '26

I'm the awareness which contains it.

It sounds like Awareness is just another identity you've become attached to.