Why is there something instead of nothing?
Well, I don't have an answer, and neither did Erwin Schrödinger.
He did, however, point out that the question itself is astonishing.
In his book 'My View of the World,' he expressed that astonishment and wonder arise when we encounter something different from what we expect.
But this whole world is something we encounter only once. We have nothing to compare it with, and it is impossible to see how we can approach it with any particular expectation.
Yet, we are astonished. We are puzzled by what we find, yet unable to say what we should have found to avoid surprise, or how the world would have to be constructed not to constitute a riddle.
I love this perspective. Thanks for sharing this, I'll carry it around in my head today.
I think about this regularly. How and why is there anything? The objective reality is far beyond human comprehension and ability to discover imo but I love the thought anyway.
One of the few that was fluent in both eastern and western philosophy and could deliver the message of one to the other.
I think if the answer was told to us, we wouldn’t be able to comprehend it. It would be like trying to teach an ant calculus.
I eager to be astonished and surprised...most of the times reality is so boring and repetitive.
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