existence and their surroundings, and the essence is achieved through genetic composition as well
as environmental makeup.
Traditionally especially on the western philosophers’ environments essence comes before
existence. It is only our genetic makeups and our environments that can contribute to human
behaviors. Inheritable genetic compositions and the traits acquired across different existing species
are commonly referred to as human nature (Studebaker 2012). The theory of the existentialism
rules out the possibility of the common human nature and also the possibility of existence coming
before essence. By claiming this, it reasons out that our consciousness can be able to determine
how to experience our environment and it does not rely on our genetic makeups or environmental
traits.
Another major problem that surrounds Existentialism is that consciousness, the aspect that
determines how well man responds to facticity, itself is not composed of facticity-of genetic
composition as well as surrounding background and structuring then it lacks meaning.
Existentialism suggests and make claims that existence comes first and then the biggest question
that we have to ask ourselves is how can then consciousness could be available, and we know that
it originates from a source that has got fundamental facticity. We are also aware that that
scientifically, consciousness is as a result of the physical implementation of the brain. The ability
of someone’s consciousness will diminish with the level of brain damage. We can, therefore, try
to imagine how an individual with a damaged brain if attacked by some situations, then how would
such a person react to the facticity in explanation. The response expected would be different as
part of brain memory tasked with the responsibility of handling critical thinking would have been
damaged. This is a prove that existence will never and has never come before essence in order to
acquire consciousness.
