Why Does the World Exist?

Some years earlier, in the notebooks he kept as a soldier in the Austrian army during the First World War, Wittgenstein wrote in the entry of October 26, 1916, “Aesthetically, the miracle is that the world exists.” (Later that day, he made the entry, “Life is serious, art is gay”—this while fighting on the Russian front.)

It has been said that the question

If you turn on your television and tune it between stations, about 10 percent of that black-and-white speckled static you see is caused by photons left over from the birth of the universe. What greater proof of the reality of the Big Bang—you can watch it on TV.

this feels like throwing in the towel.

Principle of Sufficient

…#8230; well who was the first person in the universe before there was anybody that made it all who ah that they dont know neither do I …#8230; —#8212;MOLLY’#8217;S SOLILOQUY

And the purpose of my life? As eponymous antihero of Ivan Goncharov’s great novel Oblomov is wisely told by his friend Stolz, “The purpose is to live.

Richard Feynman put it, “The truth always turns out to be simpler than you thought.”

I would earnestly warn you against trying to find out the reason for and explanation of everything.… To try and find out the reason for everything is very dangerous and leads to nothing but disappointment and dissatisfaction, unsettling your mind and in the end making you miserable.
—
QUEEN VICTORIA
, in a letter to her granddaughter

Let’s hope it’s not hackers all the way up.