Contingency

If we are truly contingent upon anything, it is the belief in our own existence. How is it that we know we exist? Because we can doubt the fact of our existence. If there is a doubt, there must be a doubter capable of doubt. So good, so far. Here now is the subtle part. Let us say that we doubt our own existence. Let us go even further to say that we disbelieve in our existence. Is this a disbelief in us, or is it a disbelief in existence itself? Perhaps it is both: a disbelief in our own existence and in the possibility of any existence itself. Well, obviously, we believe we exist. But let's take the exercise a step further. Does belief in our own existence create a contingency? Well, maybe. Now what would that contingency be? Perhaps it is a dimension of potentiality; a dimension in which the possibility of existence can occur...something that is capable of containing us, as existing. Now that dimension could be called a multi-verse, a container of universes, each of which is capable of sustaining existence; or we could go even further, and call it consciousness.