The Timeframe of Your Existence (quote, virtual, before, purpose)

[Katzpur]

When did you begin to exist?
When will you cease to exist?

[TroutDude]

Originally Posted by Katzpur

When did you begin to exist?
When will you cease to exist?

Hmmm...

When I became self-aware.

When I lose that awareness.

[Tzaphkiel]

always have been
always will be

no beginning, no end.

[badlander]

The first question is the hardest to answer, upon conception or birth or as TroutDude says upon becoming self aware. As soon as I'm brain dead I will cease to exist except in the memories of others.

[Tzaphkiel]

Originally Posted by Katzpur

When did you begin to exist?
When will you cease to exist?

Originally Posted by TroutDude

Hmmm...When I became self-aware.
When I lose that awareness.

but a person does not "cease to exist" when they are in a deep sleep. or when they are unconscious. or when they are in a coma.

[fishbrains]

Originally Posted by Tzaphkiel

but a person does not "cease to exist" when they are in a deep sleep. or when they are unconscious. or when they are in a coma.

Physically, no. However, there is a gap in your mental existence in those states. You aren't thinking of anything, nor forming additional memories. If you never come out of a coma, and eventually die, it is virtually the same thing as ceasing to exist when the coma starts.

So for practical purposes, Trout's position is defensible.

[badlander]

Originally Posted by Tzaphkiel

but a person does not "cease to exist" when they are in a deep sleep. or when they are unconscious. or when they are in a coma.

However your claim is you existed long before the dinosaurs and will still exist when our Sun finally burns up and yet you nitpick some one else

[Mightyqueen801]

Originally Posted by Katzpur

When did you begin to exist?
When will you cease to exist?

Do you mean as the human being I am right now, or as a soul/entity?

Either way, the answer is "I really don't know."

[Tzaphkiel]

Originally Posted by badlander

However your claim is you existed long before the dinosaurs and will still exist when our Sun finally burns up and yet you nitpick some one else

i am simply making the observation that a person does not "cease to exist" when they go to sleep or are unconscious.
that is not "nitpicking." it is stating the obvious.

[Harry Diogenes]

Originally Posted by Katzpur

When did you begin to exist?

There is no specific beginning, but it was after 1980. I developed as a conscious entity, but there was no specific point in time.

Originally Posted by Katzpur

When will you cease to exist?

When I die.