You Don't Exist

You exist. You simply do not exist the way the most confident story about you says you do.

Congratulations. You made yourself. You chose your genes, designed your nervous system, invented your language, grew your food, built the roads, and personally maintained the electrical grid.

A remarkable achievement.

This book is about the missing paperwork.

With an engineer's eye, a philosopher's suspicion, and the inconvenient assistance of Dr. Fuddu Lal - Director of the Institute for Other People's Problems - Rajiv Chabrotra follows one question through machines, families, markets, governments, language, responsibility, and Advaita:

What happens when a part mistakes itself for the whole?

The title denies independent existence, not the living person. Body, experience, consent, consequence, dignity, and responsibility remain real. Interdependence is not an excuse. Responsibility still has your address.

Funny, provocative, and grounded in engineering and ordinary life, You Don't Exist is for anyone ever told to stand on their own two feet by a civilization holding up the floor.

Nothing - including you - works by itself.