1. WHY IS THERE SOMETHING, RATHER THAN NOTHING?
1.1. OBJECTS AND THEIR PROPERTIES
1.1.1. The nature of how objects exist, investigating the principles and relationships between abstract and concrete things.
1.1.1.1. Concept of Properties
1.1.1.1.1. "Something" can be determined through its properties.
1.1.1.1.2. Something has to have properties to be something.
1.1.1.2. What Is Nothing?
1.1.1.2.1. In order for the concept of nothing to be invented, there must have had to been certain properties to define nothing. How would someone know what nothing is without sensing its properties? How could the word, the concept of nothing be invented without a purpose to be invented for?
1.2. IDENTITY AND CHANGE
1.2.1. Analyzing principles to identify, as well as defining why we identify the things we do, and how identity changes based on descriptions.
1.2.1.1. Identifying
1.2.1.1.1. "something" can be described as vague as matter. "
1.2.1.1.2. Identity plays a major role in philosophy. Determining key properties and defining characteristics help build an identity. When posing the question "Why Is There Something, Rather Than Nothing?" we need to learn the identity of "something", and identify our existence in order to properly assess the question.
1.2.1.1.3. If we are going to claim "something" vaguely, something = the known.
1.2.1.2. Leibniz's Theory
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1.3. RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY
1.3.1. Exploring the nature of possibilities about beyond. Specifically how others, past and future play roles in life. Such as questioning God or any type of ancient being with higher power.
1.3.1.1. Why People Believe
1.3.1.1.1. Types of Beliefs
1.3.1.1.2. Many believe the reason for all existence came from a higher being. An entity that holds all power. Whether that be a God, Gods, High Lord, Cauldron, Gaia, Pantheon, Light, Spirit, and any other religious mythology. Why do people believe?
1.3.1.1.3. Connection to the Question
2. DOES THE WORLD REALLY EXIST?
2.1. EXISTENCE AND CONCSIOUS
2.1.1. Questioning the truth of being, and connecting a person's conscious to the physical being.
2.1.1.1. Perception & Illusion
2.1.1.1.1. The conscious is said to be connected to our living beings, it creates and helps develop our personality through self-awareness and sense of life. If the conscious has enough power to control our persons unknowingly, then living beings can not identify an illusion. Interpretations and imagination collide to a placement of unawareness. This is a theory that can very well reign true. This is to be believed since no one can answer the question whether the world exists or not. The question regarding the worlds existence can not and will not ever be settled, this from perception. Every conscious is different, and it holds the ability to formulate individualized opinions from its present state. This is why one can agree on what the world is, what existence means, and whether the world exists. This is every individual conscious twisting and deceiving perceptions of reality, hence creating individualized opinions on what could all be an illusion.
2.1.1.2. The Conscious
2.1.1.2.1. Many believe the conscious is a vital element in our person, connecting us to whatever lies beyond. The conscious is believed to be born with the living and develops through time.
2.1.1.3. The worlds existence must have some sense of realness or else why is there something rather than nothing?
2.1.1.4. HOW THIS CONNECTS TO THE QUESTION?
2.1.1.4.1. Examining the truth of life, studying the different depths of our current reality and the connection between can help us grow our view, expand our outlook on the question. Addressing the multiple different realms of possibilities, evaluating and studying the theories of existence and consciousness will advance the search in finding the most reasonable answer in whether the world really exists.
2.2. MIND AND MATTER
2.2.1. Dualistic Skepticism, how the brain perceives information to conclude one's idea of what is and isn’t real. Having a physical response to the mind's perceptions.
2.2.1.1. How our thoughts influence physical and mental definitions. If the mind is not physical, then how does it effect our physical perception? But if the mind is physical, then how do we explain our conscious?
2.2.1.2. The thought processes of all living beings is influenced by our current physical reality. Mind and matter focuses on where our consciousness lives. How our conscious can come to the conclusion whether the world is real or not.
2.2.1.3. There are two popular contrasting beliefs when speculating mind and matter. Western vs Eastern Society.
2.2.1.3.1. Western Society = Materialistic
2.2.1.3.2. Eastern Society = Idealism
2.2.2. HOW THIS CONNECTS TO THE QUESTION?
2.2.2.1. Mind & Matter is an important abstraction worth evaluating. When assessing the worlds existence, mind and matter considers the impact of the physical and mental substances, how they act individually, and how they act together. Depending on ones belief system and current reality, perception can be easily altered, and the question can be molded to fit certain narratives. That is why it is important to look at mind and matter, because to answer a question as bold as the worlds existence, we must know whos eyes and whos consciousness we are addressing the question from. We must understand and study how the mind and body communicate an influence one another in order to find a clear, accurate answer that a reasonable sense.
3. WHAT IS OUR PLACE IN THE UNIVERSE?
3.1. COSMOLOGY
3.1.1. WHY IS COSMOLOGY IMPORTANT IN FINDING "OUR PLACE" IN THE UNIVERSE?
3.1.1.1. Understanding Cosmology and Cosmogony, researching how we came to be is an important step and leading factor when determining "our place". Knowing how we were created can give valuable insight and draw more reasonable conclusions to our purpose. How we came to be can tell a lot about "our place" or where we are supposed to be. It will not give a straight answer but narrow the options, ease some speculation, and make "our place" seem more personalized and special.
3.1.2. Cosmology is the study of the universe and beyond. Theorizing energies, Cosmology searches for the origin of the universe in a physical, metaphysical, religious, and evolutionary matter. Researching the development of space, time, conscious, mind, body, soul, and the creation of mankind. Questioning the reality and truth of what lies outside earth's atmosphere, before and after the present.
3.1.2.1. Physical
3.1.2.1.1. Physical: Scientific and Mathematically based. Physical Cosmology searches for answers in the physical. The conscious and imagination are rejected as this type of Cosmology looks for answers solely in proven numbers through physics, quantum mechanics, astrophysics, optics, and electromagnetics. An example of Physical Cosmology would be the Big Bang Theory.
3.1.2.2. Religious
3.1.2.2.1. Religious: A belief that the creation of the universe, origin of everything is from an immortal higher power. Religious Cosmology study's the different possibilities of higher powers such as God, Gods, Satan, Gaia, Pantheon, Creator Deity, Light, and many more varying on the religious mythology. Religious Cosmology is less of a field of study and leans more towards a belief system preached and taught by religious communities around the world.
3.1.2.3. Metaphysical
3.1.2.3.1. Metaphysical: A philosophical perspective of the universes origin, Metaphysical Cosmology and Cosmogony have no distinct answers. Looking beyond the physical, and questioning the religious. Metaphysical Cosmology theories look and stretch even further beyond the generalized comfort zone. Inspecting energy, matter, and the conscious. Metaphysical theories somehow combine physical and mythological properties, to then create a theory of origin based on probability and the unknown.
3.1.3. COSMOGONY
3.1.3.1. Unlike Cosmology, Cosmogony deals with what the beginning of the universe was and what was before the beginning, like the prologue in a novel. While Cosmology dissects and searches for the pattern of events that happened after the theory of origin. Cosmogony: The beginning of the universe. Cosmology: What took place just after the beginning.
3.2. NECESSITY AND POSSIBILITY
3.2.1. Necessity and Possibility is the study that evaluates reality, life, and the conscious. What is needed to be real vs what could be real. Any matter that we think is physical can be proven or assumed unreal from the lack of reasonable evidence. A necessity can be argued real with the reasoning of its importance to maintain life. Necessity and Possibility debates and argues the line of what is and could be real.
3.2.1.1. Theories.
3.2.1.1.1. NECESSITY
3.2.1.1.2. POSSIBILITY
3.2.1.2. How does Necessity and Possibility advance the question in finding "our place"?
3.2.1.2.1. Evaluating reality to theorize and conclude what is real and illusion is a crucial piece of determining "our place". Since the we are searching for "our place' in the universe. We must evaluate, Is the universe real? Is the universe a physical or mental substance? How do we know that to be true? These are all questions that need to answered and thoroughly evaluated. As well as asking questions even further, Is "our place" physical or mental? What is a place? All questions need to be debated and decided in order to further on in answering the final question.
3.3. OBJECTS AND THEIR PROPERTIES
3.3.1. The nature of how objects exist, investigating the principles and relationships between abstract and concrete things.
3.3.1.1. Types of Properties
3.3.1.1.1. Physical
3.3.1.1.2. Chemical
3.3.1.1.3. Sense
3.3.1.1.4. Impossible
3.3.1.2. Properties of the Universe
3.3.1.2.1. When discussing the universe there are many properties that are taken into account. Physically using our current senses and perception of reality. The universe can be described to have properties such as, a shapeless and constant void filled with billions of pieces of matter in every shape, size, colour, and chemical composition.
3.3.1.2.2. When challenging the physical description, one must take in the ideology of what the universe could hold as its properties.
3.3.1.2.3. MIND AND MATTER