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A strange thought on being real.
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Knowing if you exist is an exagegerated form of the question of knowing what's real and what isn't. What's true and what isn't. It is usually in that context that this would ever be approached. So I do think both knowing what's real (what exists) verses what is real (discerning the truth from falsehoods) are part of the same conversation.
As for solipsism. There are other elements down the question then just if your mind is the only one. There is also if your world is an illusion. A figment in a dream, (perhaps not even your own dream). If you are able to think, then yeah I'd say that's real enough because your conscience to think and act on your own, (even if you are in a dream).
Move it up a level though. We can interact with eachother, and so I can assume with a resonable assurance, that you are just as real as I am. But there are other things that are not like that. Things that are unseen that affect us. Some possibly unconscience elements of the world. Others seem less unconscience. Too many things occure from both my experiences and those that I know to think we are alone in the world. It no longer comes down to --if-- spiritual/supernatural elements exist, but instead --which-- of those elements exist, and which ones are figments we make up.