The Steps of My Reasoning - Essay Example

First one has to reason or think about the situation. I exist, but how do I reason that others exist? The first thought is if I exist, how do I exist? Did I just appear out of smoke one day? How did I get here? I do not remember the birth, or how I got here on earth. I cannot use another’s story about how I got here, because that uses one of the five senses. I do exist though. Logic dictates that in nature, nothing is uniquely formed. Even if I woke up on a deserted island, with no memory of anyone else, I would not think I was the only human.

There would be the probability of another human existing, even if I could not see, touch, hear, taste, or smell another human. The problem with this argument is to reason about nature you have to use your five senses. If you have to throw out all your five senses, the existence of others cannot be proven conclusively. It can be speculated upon. I can think and reason that there is a probability of others, but to be one hundred percent sure of the existence of others cannot be reached; at least with someone with my intelligence.