I'm trying to understand your reply, but honestly I don't. If you find yourself contemplating your levels of trust in yourself compared to other people, then it is logically impossible for you not to exist. In order to contemplate something then you must necessarily exist, and to say otherwise is incoherent.
Seeing me from your angle, you are totally right.
It is like saying I do exist while my living flesh is
in deep sleep. Yes, anyone who sees me asleep can say I do exist. He says this while
I personally have lost my will and all sort of connections to the time/space realm. But, it is okay if you can't get well this point... because it is somehow like Relativity in Physics
IFor example, there is no way to tell whose faith-based interpretation of a scripture is more correct, because there are no objective tools to measure this and so it all appears to be based on personal bias alone.
You call it personal bias alone, I call it personal experience
For example, how do you think I discovered that I have a living soul and it is different from my living flesh?
I did as I do in discovering the characteristics of an unknown device.
The Device Under Test (DUT) was simply my complex structure of which I am made.
One of the experiments is that I noticed that I had two contradicting feelings anytime I hurt back the one who hurt me. On one hand, I felt fine, if not proud, to show the other side that I am not less strong/smart than he is. On the other hand, I felt real bad for not being able to
master my own flesh from reacting as a robot which is
pre-programmed to defend itself. (By the way, most people, I knew,
just feel great as on the first hand; after all, all other living things are supposed to also obey their instincts of survival.)