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"Oh, and also that the universe exists at all" That's the one to keep coming back to. Could've been nothin.
by mrtnmcc 5y ago
"Oh, and also that the universe exists at all"
That's the one to keep coming back to. Could've been nothin.
- AnIdiotOnTheNet 5y agoOn the other hand, nothingness has no cause or means for suffering.
- a_wild_dandan 5y agoWhich comes back to #19: > That even if, as most scientific-minded people seem to assume, there is no afterlife, that’s not ideal, but is much better than other possibilities like, say, being tortured for eternity. Like, we could all be a bunch of Boltzmann brains[1] popping into existence in an empty universe, writhing with unimaginable pain in every pseudo-neuron of our temporary brains. But it's not like that, at least yet. Which is pretty cool. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boltzmann_brain https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boltzmann_brain
- saltyfamiliar 5y agoThere is no "we" that could be like that if it's boltzmann brains all the way down. It could very well be mostly unimaginable agony that exists, it's just that the temporary boltzmann configuration of "posting a thought on HN as a human with human memories" happens to not be a part of that.
- 323 5y agoSome, like Stephen Wolfram, say that the universe must exists, that non-existance is not possible. https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2021/04/why-does-the-universe-exist-some-perspectives-from-our-physics-project/ https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2021/04/why-does-the-uni...