What if We're a Human Being?

The first thing you experience about your existence is not that you're a thinking thing, it's just sort of being there. Heydeger has a word he uses to describe this state, dazein. The literal german translation of dasein is being there,. In the english translations of heydeger, being in the world is hyphenated as 'being' He sees these two concepts as fundamentally together because they exist without each other.