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Title: If I exist, then how would you prove my existence?
Post by: @The_Father on 04/04/2011 22:30:04
@The_Father asked the Naked Scientists:
   
If I exist, then how would you prove my existence? (a part from the fact I just tweeted you).

What do you think?
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Post by: neilep on 05/04/2011 01:05:03
@The_Father asked the Naked Scientists:
   
If I exist, then how would you prove my existence? (a part from the fact I just tweeted you).

What do you think?

By proving you exist to the terms you accept as proof of your own existence .
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Post by: JimBob on 05/04/2011 23:11:22
@The_Father asked the Naked Scientists:
   
If I exist, then how would you prove my existence? (a part from the fact I just tweeted you).

What do you think?

2nd bit of evidence - can't spell - see herd highlight in Red Bold
Title: If I exist, then how would you prove my existence?
Post by: Karen W. on 08/04/2011 21:56:34
@The_Father asked the Naked Scientists:
   
If I exist, then how would you prove my existence? (a part from the fact I just tweeted you).

What do you think?

2nd bit of evidence - can't spell - see herd highlight in Red Bold

Yes, Jimbob, we also see that you too must exist, because you can't spell either....LOL...LOL... I do believe you meant "- see here in Red Bold" Eh?
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Post by: Geezer on 09/04/2011 05:15:01
Are you sure? I took it that JimBob was talking about a herd of sheep, or more likely a herd of longhornys.
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Post by: Karen W. on 09/04/2011 05:47:12
LOL...longhornies...LOL....
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Post by: Geezer on 09/04/2011 06:04:14
I hope you realize this sort of kwality repartee does not come cheap (or even sheep). I have to engage a full time staff of joke writers. Fortunately, like everyone else in Idaho, they work for peanuts and the occasional potato.
Title: If I exist, then how would you prove my existence?
Post by: moonstroller on 09/04/2011 07:28:21
@The_Father asked the Naked Scientists:
   
If I exist, then how would you prove my existence? (a part from the fact I just tweeted you).

What do you think?

Such an easy question.

If in the beginning there was nothing, there would be nothing to change that situation with.
ergo something has always existed. or Eternity exists.

The real question is not wither you exist or I but how can we prove we don't exist?

I would further ask that all none-extant people please don't post a comment to this post. But, if you didn't exist you couldn't do that could you?

My grandmother would say, whack your big toe with a hammer. If you don't exist you won't scream.

Title: If I exist, then how would you prove my existence?
Post by: Geezer on 09/04/2011 08:23:06
@The_Father asked the Naked Scientists:
   
If I exist, then how would you prove my existence? (a part from the fact I just tweeted you).

What do you think?

Such an easy question.

If in the beginning there was nothing, there would be nothing to change that situation with.
ergo something has always existed. or Eternity exists.

The real question is not wither you exist or I but how can we prove we don't exist?

I would further ask that all none-extant people please don't post a comment to this post. But, if you didn't exist you couldn't do that could you?

My grandmother would say, whack your big toe with a hammer. If you don't exist you won't scream.



You might prove you actually exist if you use the spell checker, otherwise we might conclude you are merely a pigment of your own imagination.
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Post by: Karen W. on 09/04/2011 10:21:50
lol DITTO!
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Post by: neilep on 09/04/2011 11:24:03
I luff potato !
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Post by: Madidus_Scientia on 09/04/2011 14:00:25
Poke with stick.
Title: If I exist, then how would you prove my existence?
Post by: neilep on 09/04/2011 14:30:20
Poke with stick.

If ewe poke a non-existent me with a non-existent stick....is that like a double negative ?.....will I and the stick then exist ?
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Post by: Madidus_Scientia on 10/04/2011 04:42:46
Yeah i think so, maybe that's what created the universe
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Post by: Karen W. on 10/04/2011 13:54:57
Awe...now who poked who with their stick???
Oooooooooh. Hows about having one of Neil's empirical studies. I will volunteer to be poked...to prove I am real and I exist!!!  [;)] [:X] [;D]
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Post by: moonstroller on 13/04/2011 03:45:35
@The_Father asked the Naked Scientists:
   
If I exist, then how would you prove my existence? (a part from the fact I just tweeted you).

What do you think?

Such an easy question.

If in the beginning there was nothing, there would be nothing to change that situation with.
ergo something has always existed. or Eternity exists.

The real question is not wither you exist or I but how can we prove we don't exist?

I would further ask that all none-extant people please don't post a comment to this post. But, if you didn't exist you couldn't do that could you?

My grandmother would say, whack your big toe with a hammer. If you don't exist you won't scream.



You might prove you actually exist if you use the spell checker, otherwise we might conclude you are merely a pigment of your own imagination.
@The_Father asked the Naked Scientists:
   
If I exist, then how would you prove my existence? (a part from the fact I just tweeted you).

What do you think?

Such an easy question.

If in the beginning there was nothing, there would be nothing to change that situation with.
ergo something has always existed. or Eternity exists.

The real question is not wither you exist or I but how can we prove we don't exist?

I would further ask that all none-extant people please don't post a comment to this post. But, if you didn't exist you couldn't do that could you?

My grandmother would say, whack your big toe with a hammer. If you don't exist you won't scream.



You might prove you actually exist if you use the spell checker, otherwise we might conclude you are merely a pigment of your own imagination.

Pigment?  Really.... <smile>
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Post by: Karen W. on 13/04/2011 08:07:38
lol...lol..
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Post by: Airthumbs on 14/04/2011 16:38:37
Apart from all the poking my guess is I would have to observe you to prove you exist. If no one was looking at you including yourself then you may well not exist!!
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Post by: Karen W. on 15/04/2011 16:04:31
nice point....
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Post by: neilep on 15/04/2011 16:42:56
Why not ewe prove to us ewe don't exist first ?  [:D]
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Post by: yor_on on 15/04/2011 22:21:27
"If I exist, then how would you prove my existence?"

Eh? :)

Whose father, if I might inquire?
Don't tell me you fish too :)
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Post by: yamo on 21/04/2011 07:10:48
Prove to whom?
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Post by: Geezer on 21/04/2011 07:45:17
Prove to whom?

If I existed, I would reply.

Bugger!
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Post by: husam on 23/04/2011 06:10:10
Prove to whom?

If I existed, I would reply.

Bugger!
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Post by: Bored chemist on 23/04/2011 11:19:48
Anything that made me care about whether or not you exist would generally be evidence that you exist.
If you don't exist then you don't matter.
If you matter then it suggests that you exist.