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Originally Posted by NewOldPlayer
My only fear in life is not knowing the answer when I die.
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Irrational fear - first you may die suddenly, no time to contemplate anything, secondly if you do have the knowledge of your demise and time to contemplate it I really doubt you'll be asking 'Why am I here in this body?'.
I guess you're saying that you live with this fear and you hope by the time you die you have an answer for it. Um ... good luck with that.
Solipsism may be for you - Solipsism is the philosophical idea that only one's own mind is sure to exist.
Why are you you? No reason other than the genetic blueprint we each are born with, 'you' are your brain interacting with the world around you. Everything you believe yourself to be can change just with a physical change to parts of your brain such as a tumor or lesion. A high functioning brilliant person can wake up one day out of the blue and the world goes dark for them with clinical depression. They are no longer the same person, they don't laugh, they barely function. Same person but they are no longer the person they thought of themselves as.