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Thought 10

I don't always live for happiness. I live to create and explore the possibilities of everything. I have probed the fundamentals of reality, challenged the unknown, and surrendered to my endless imagination.


My contemplation has resulted in 10 unanswered sets of questions, listed below.


1. Imagination

How is our imagination boundless? How come we, residing in our physical reality, can conceptualize things beyond our reality, like the multiverse?

2. Everything

How do we create everything? How can we know, reduce, or describe everything?

3. Nothing

Is nothing the simplest thing?

4. Something: Possibility

How can we extract something from everything? Or did we build everything from something?

How can we create new possibilities?

5. Arbitrariness

Am I arbitrary? How would I know?

6. Existence

Why doesn't everything exist? How is it possible that we can know what does not exist?

Why don't patterns and rules of the universe exist tangibly?

7. Fundamentality

How is it possible that something fundamental can be used to derive something more complex than itself?

Can we think of something that does not obey fundamentality? If not, shouldn't everything be based on something fundamental?

8. Plurality

Why are there multiple things rather than just one thing in the universe? If there was only one thing, what would it be?

But... how do we even know there are multiple things in the universe? What if plurality is just an interpretation?

9. Change

Why do things change? Why is change fundamentally different from state? How do we know things change at all?

Do we create meaning when we intently make choices to change and bring about particular possibilities?

10. No-order, "Norder"

Can there exist a system of no order and no patterns? Can we even explain such a system, beyond saying that it is "not" something else (i.e., not ordered)?