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Why is there something rather than nothing?
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Div Task by M.Holland 1. Why is there something rather than nothing? I and every other human do not know why there is something rather than nothing, or if the question is even meaningful. If this question has a short answer, it must consist in a self-explaining fact or a cycle of facts. A candidate for such a fact would be the concept of God in the Ontological Proof (A verbal definition of the conception is something the non-existence of which is impossible), but that proof is not convincing. Humans do not know any such facts, or even if they could possibly exist. If it is asserted that non-existence is more likely or natural than existence, one could ask why this asserted tendency (toward non-existence) itself exists. A possibly meaningful (but not at all simple) answer to the Ultimate Why is that the universe exists (more precisely, is perceived to exist) roughly...
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