WHY DOES ANYTHING EXIST

From: Norman Samish <ncsamish.domain.name.hidden>
Date: Wed, 18 May 2005 07:15:24 -0700

Quentin Anciaux,

Thanks for the explanation. Unlike much that is said here, I am able to
understand what you mean. But it's not satisfying, and the core mystery
remains. Even if Pearce is correct and everything in the multiverse
self-cancels and adds up to zero, so what? That is not an explanation of
existence.

Obviously, we don't know THE answer - do you (or anybody) think there CAN be
an answer that does not require supernatural intervention? What might it
be?

My wife says the answer is "Because."

Norman Samish
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Quentin Anciaux" <quentin.anciaux.domain.name.hidden>
To: "Norman Samish" <ncsamish.domain.name.hidden>
Sent: Tuesday, May 17, 2005 7:21 AM
Subject: Re: Fw: WHY DOES ANYTHING EXIST


Le mardi 17 mai 2005 à 06:56 -0700, Norman Samish a écrit :
> Hi Jonathan,
>
> You say that "Because it is necessarily true" is the answer
> to "Why does the integer series -100 to +100 exist?"
> However, you seem to say that this is NOT the answer to
> "Why does anything exist?" In this latter case, you seem to > say the
> question is meaningless because "the sum of
> everything is equivalent to nothing."

I think it is meaningless because the question is "Why is there
something/anything instead of nothing?" The answer as given by Jonathan is
that something/anything and nothing are the same... So if there are the same
object, the question is meaningless.

Quentin Anciaux
Received on Wed May 18 2005 - 12:05:14 PDT