"8 Philosophical Questions That We'll Never Solve:
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Some answers to some questions from http://io9.gizmodo.com/5945801/8-philosophical-questions-that-well-never-solve:
1. Why is there something rather than nothing?
Nothing is an imaginary concept. There has never been nothing. There will never be nothing.
2. Is our universe real?
Yes. That's what the word means. If there's other things going on out there, they don't become part of human reality until we find out about them.
3. Do we have free will?
No. The universe is an infinitely complicated machine and there's only one way things can happen. If you want "free will" to mean the experience or feeling of freedom, then yes, we have that. But we are not free.
4. Does God exist?
What do you mean? What is the definition of your god? If you want to claim the existence of something you have to have evidence for it and so far evidence for god ideas have failed consistently throughout human history.
5. Is there life after death?
Not in the normal sense but you could say that you live on in the lives of people you affected while you were alive. There's no way to know anything that happens after death, but we do know that we don't know, so unless you have some evidence that the rest of us missed, it has to be fiction.
6. Can you really experience anything objectively?
No. There are three levels of filters on our experience; physical, cultural, ans psychological. The good news is, we've been evolving for millions of years to get the information we need so you can trust what you're sensing even if it's not entirely accurate or complete.
7. What is the best moral system?
Ethical hedonism or enlightened self-interest. It is objectively true that what benefits the world around you benefits yourself, and vice versa. In the end, only the best You can have the best life for you and you would be a better You if you were able to attain a high quality of life for yourself AND benefit society than if you were either of those things separately. We are all in this together.
8. What are numbers?
Numbers are markers for a quantity of patterns. Those patterns can be apples, ideas, numbers... Math is a numerical description of the relationships between things, specifically amounts of things, and numbers stand in for whatever those things are.