When wondering why the universe exists, I have to ask this series of questions:
1.) Does there have to be a reason?/Can there be a reason?
2.) If so, is there a reason?
3.) If there is a reason, what is it?
We have to start with the first question, and depending on that answer we may or may not move on to the second… similarly for the third question.
These are not easy questions.
If there can be no reason, then I suppose the people who say there is no reason are correct and we can stop there, each of us content with simply trying to make comfortable in our minds the very reason that there can be no reason (which seems to me like something that might actually be understandable, and the end of the regression of Why’s). If those people are incorrect however, then are the remaining questions themselves by their nature impossible to answer or are they simply too difficult to have been answered by any human in history? Or have they been answered, and if so where is this mofo who has the answers? And if they are impossible, is it because of our perspective as part of the universe itself, or because of some other reason? If some other reason, what would that be? If on the other hand they are not impossible questions, but too difficult for anyone to have answered thus far, will someone or something eventually answer them? If so, who or what will that person or thing be, and when will it happen? Also, if it is possible to understand the answer, and someone or something does provide the answer, will the Illops personally have enough intelligence to understand it?
I tried twice to comment on your youtube video concerning the same subject. Neither comment showed up. So, I will address it here.
First of all, regarding your video, I want to applaud you for making the distinction between “reason” and “purpose” that is the main difference between determinism and fate. You have obviously come to the greatest challenge that is inevitable to all hard determinists; First Cause vs. Infinite Regression. This is a concept that I wrestle with from time to time but I’m definitely far leaning towards a version of infinite regression that I don’t feel like trying to articulate right now.
I’m confident that we will never, at least not for a few lifetimes, understand why the universe exists. What caused it to come into existence? What end does it’s existence serve, if any? These questions are likely to never be answered but that definitely shouldn’t stop us from asking.
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I dunno, dude.