Any of y’all heard of this guy named God? Look it up
So what specific properties are you attributing to this prime mover?
Why consciousness or cognition, for instance, or interest in life on our microscopic speck of dust?
“1” created the universe with every beings inside it. Then, “1” taught to themselves how every being would blame “1” for every minute problems. So, to wash their hands out of it, “1” created Godesses (aka Gods).
People are downvoting this, despite it being a perfectly good response to the question posed.
Don’t get me wrong, religion is all bullshit and lies, but to a christian, god is the correct answer
It’s not the answer, it’s how the answer is presented. You cannot give an objective answer to a subjective question and present it as if it is the only clear and logical fact that could have existed in the first place.
I don’t. Fuck it.
I can’t for lack of evidence and aside from curiosity I don’t really need to. It is interesting to ponder.
Scientific theories exist but I’m not sure how one can reliably determine which, if any, are the better explanation.
It’s a long lasting, constantly evolving, multi-versal fluke.
We can’t see, experience, or detect most of the universe — read: existence — let alone measure it. That pretty much means, to me anyway, we can’t explain it.
Explaining existence, then, is limited to explaining my own perception of existence. To be brief: The things that exist got here the same way we did and use the same materials and rules. Conscious beings stay in the universe by maintaining consciousness; for us, that generally means being alive, awake, and alert — in that order. Upon death, consciousness ends, or departs, or continues (no one knows) and our corporeal form goes back to existing as atoms in other states within the environment. Present existence, then, pregnant by the ghosts of all existences that has gone before and is carrying to term all existences that will exist after. It’s an endless, cyclical flow of atoms, energies, and absences. A crossroads of Space and Time culminating in experiential states and chains of causality. Billions of years in a blink.
Other conscious beings may operate or perceive differently. We can’t individuall confirm or know. That’s another of those rules.
That said, we only get to ride this existence thing for a short time. Build up your XP and use your one and only life doing good. Not necessarily well, but good.
Imagine standing outside of Time and Space and making a divine survey of the grand tapestry of the possible. It would look like math painted onto bubbles that glow from within, I think. That’s what Existence may be.
“I don’t know.”
The trick is not to follow that with “therefore…”
Selection bias.
If it didn’t exist, you wouldn’t be asking.
Indeed
There are probably countless universes, most of which are empty.
Only on the ones with the correct physics is life able to evolve.
And only on those this question can be asked.
It’s a metaphysical question.
Metaphysical cosmology is the branch of metaphysics that deals with the world as the totality of all phenomena in space and time. Historically, it formed a major part of the subject alongside ontology, though its role is more peripheral in contemporary philosophy. It has had a broad scope, and in many cases was founded in religion. The ancient Greeks drew no distinction between this use and their model for the cosmos. However, in modern times it addresses questions about the Universe which are beyond the scope of the physical sciences. It is distinguished from religious cosmology in that it approaches these questions using philosophical methods (e.g. dialectics).
Cosmogony deals specifically with the origin of the universe.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Why_there_is_anything_at_all
You can theorize about it, but for most theories, you aren’t likely going to be able to do much to test them.
We just don’t have any knowledge that we can get from the world that would let us make much of a call on it. Nothing we’re going to learn is likely going to let us provide an answer.
It also probably won’t provide much useful predictive power about the world, which is normally why we want to gain knowledge.
It’s like asking whether there are decoupled universes that we can never interact with, or why the specific physical properties of the universe are the way they are – we can maybe dig deeper within physics, come up with simpler or more-accurately-descriptive models but at some most-primitive level, that falls off of physics and into metaphysics. At that level, physics can only say “this is the way things work”, not why.
So I’m not going to worry too much about it. There are hard questions that we don’t know the answers to that are within the realm of testability, and that do have predictive power.
I think, therefore I am.
I don’t.
I don’t care if it’s actually real because it feels real enough.
This exactly. Any greater insight or “enlightenment” doesn’t change anything and has no tangible benefits. Frankly attempting to find it would drive most anyone mad, so I don’t bother.
My man over here living their best life inside the matrix
Or Azathoth’s dream.
If nothing existed, it would not be possible to raise a question of this - or any other - type.
So that is that determined.
Whether anything beyond my instantaneous perception of thought relating to this question exists is another matter. I can’t prove it. I wouldn’t really say that I do ‘explain’ it either. I merely have an experience of it.
Something’s gotta be, may as well be this
On a more serious note, I have absolutely no basis for this whatsoever but I think it’s likely there’s an antimatter universe somewhere, and that that and our universe spontaneously came into existence from nothing. 0 = -1 + 1. I mean, it’s almost certainly nonsensical to the people who study this stuff but it’s a fun idea
I don’t know enough either, but a fun thought experiment is maybe we’re the anituniverse? There’s a lot more mass in the universe, than there should be, and we don’t know what it is. It’s just “dark matter” and “dark energy”.
Edit: please correct me if I’m wrong, I’ve only read pop science stuff like Hawkins books
There is a theorie where we could live inside a blackhole, maybe it’s the creation of it that we call the bigbang and it somehow explain why the universe is in expansion.
I shrug and go play a videogame. There’s nothing I can do about it no matter the answer.
After a bit of light reading and asking people who know more about philosophy than me, it seems I lean to absurdism. My take is that there is no reason for the existence of the universe or the evolution of humans. It was merely a series of random events that happened to end up the way it is. So it is what is is, I don’t let myself be bothered by it.
But that doesn’t mean life has no meaning per se. I’m already here, so I might as well make the most of it and live my life to the fullest. Someone correct me if I’m wrong, but that puts me in the category of absurdism, rather than existential nihilism.
If there is no reason then where does the meaning come from? Are they related?
I’m in the “we’re living in a simulation” camp. I just think it’s mostly unattended. Every once in a while the being running the simulation comes back and pokes at the console or upgrades their computer and we have some innovation. The invention of fire, agriculture, the Renaissance, space race, etc.
It explains why we keep thinking we find the building blocks of the universe, then discover something smaller (gpu upgrade). Or why there’s a universal constant speed (cpu clock).
I just hope the Bering doesn’t get bored and end the program for the last time like I eventually did to my sim city.
I couldn’t possibly. This shit don’t make no sense.
