This paper investigates the relationship between existence, consciousness, and self-awareness through a phenomenological and existential framework. Beginning from the immediate fact of experience rather than metaphysical speculation, it explores the possibility that human beings are not separate entities within the universe but expressions of the universe itself. The study argues that consciousness represents a unique phenomenon through which existence becomes capable of knowing its own presence. Self-awareness is interpreted as a form of cosmic self-reflection, where reality encounters itself through conscious life. By examining the primacy of lived experience, the nature of selfhood, and the limits of conceptual thought, the paper proposes that the deepest philosophical mystery is not merely that the universe exists, but that existence can become aware of itself.
Mayank Singh (Thu,) studied this question.