Metaphysical existence

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i took a philosophy course as an elective in my college days and almost flunked it.

HAHAHA I think you are not only right but that I made a terrible boo boo by using substructure instead. It should have been his pet "substrate"

In my view it is not cogito ergo sum, it is rather 'I think -because- I am'. The rocks don't need us around to sense them for their existence - their existence is independent of our or any life. They were, after, here before us.

We are in fact & in essence material beings, everything about us is mediated within matter & energy, our thoughts are indeed encapsulated within a neural structure firing ion potentials and inter-neural transmitter chemicals. We communicate mechanically. That's all a given. There is absolutely nothing detectably or even plausibly immaterial about us, or any organism, everything that lives being derived from a single organic root ancestor.

If existence is illusory, some account must be made for the complex emergence of the universe in general, the process of evolution in particular - since it is not merely a tape being run, but a vast process, in which the rules of physics are always observed, but happenstance (asteroids colliding with earth, million-long years of ice-age or magma flows) works vast changes upon the planet and the life upon it.

Imagining some puppet-master spinning yarns/simulations seems the far less likely explanation than raw staggeringly complex yet consistent existence manifest. I do expect a trained philosopher will be able to spot some logical errors or lack of 'rigor' in my account, since people continue to dispute these things, but I have a hard time taking such disputes seriously.