Do I Really Exist?

By George Gigauri

The essay presents a philosophical experiment to overcome death and question the very fact of one's own existence. The core argument made is that one doesn't really exist in the traditional sense, if our metaphysical foundations are relentlessly investigated, boldly questioned and naturally redefined.

The paper seeks to examine and re-evaluate the most primary notions of existence, death, non-being, language, nothingness, infinity, space and time, truth, and as several less common ideas, arising as pertinent to the theory, such as 'question', 'what' and 'is'. This process of undermining and reshaping of the traditional epistemic and ontological frameworks leads to the emergence of a concept of a 'unified singularity', as a new form of reality. A new metaphysics which merges all totality of existence, including the Self, into one indivisible whole, thus doing away with both being and death as superfluous notions, and begging the question: 'do I really exist?'

• Language: English
• Publisher: George Gigauri
• Release date: Dec 27, 2020
• ISBN: 9781005494285

George Gigauri

Dr. George Gigauri is a UN official and senior humanitarian. He is one of the three Co-Chairs, with UNHCR and the UN Resident Coordinator, of the Strategic Coordination Group (SEG) which oversees and manages the 2015 Rohingya refugee crisis response, which is the largest refugee camp in the world. He is also the Coordinator of the United Nations Migration Network that brings together key UN agencies and civil society partners working on migration policy and development. He studied Politics & Philosophy and received a PhD in Political Science in 2015. He holds an MSc (Distinction) in Migration Studies from University of Oxford. He speaks English, Georgian, and Russian.

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