Why Does Anything Exist? - Part II - AlwaysAsking.com

This is Part 2 of the question: Why does anything exist? Why is there something rather than nothing? Wouldn’t nothing have been so much easier?

Every society in every time has wrestled with this dilemma. It’s our most enduring question. For we all seek to know: why we are here?

In this episode we will review the latest answers and use the best available evidence in an attempt to settle this ageless question. With an answer to this question we can orientate ourselves in reality, and understand the reason behind it all.

An answer to this question would tell us not only why we exist, but also what else exists, both within the universe we see and beyond.

Beginning: 00:00
Episode start: 00:26
The Foundational Crisis: 04:42
A Call to Action: 03:03
New Foundations: 03:49
Gödel’s Incompleteness Theorems: 06:58
Undecidability: 10:17
Hilbert’s 10th Problem: 13:44
Universal Equations: 18:07
The Universal Dovetailer: 22:24
A Story of Creation: 26:28
Ancient Anticipations: 27:30
The Causeless Cause Found?: 33:06
Is it Causeless?: 33:17
Independent of Minds: 33:32
Independent of Matter: 35:06
Is it the Cause?: 36:22
The Cause of Minds: 37:33
The Cause of Matter: 43:58
Is This Testable?: 46:48
Algorithmic Information Theory: 48:12
Confirming Evidence: 50:30
Predictions of the Theory: 51:16
Why Laws?: 54:00
Why the Laws are Mathematical: 58:09
Why the Laws are Simple: 59:59
Why the Laws are Life-Friendly: 01:03:35
Why Quantum Mechanics?: 01:08:02
Irreducible Randomness: 01:12:16
Infinite Complexity: 01:17:37
Quantum Computers: 01:20:56
Why Time?: 01:24:15
A Beginning in Time: 01:26:33
Information as Fundamental: 01:30:06
Observation as Fundamental: 01:34:12
Reviewing the Evidence: 01:39:43
Conclusions: 01:40:47
The Journey Here: 01:43:14
A Strange Answer: 01:44:42
A Triumph of Human Reason: 01:46:25
Open Questions: 01:48:43
Room for God: 01:48:54
Deriving Physical Law: 01:50:13
Implications: 01:52:18
The Universe is a Dream: 01:52:29
We Live in a Simulation: 01:53:55
Our Place in Reality: 01:54:39

See Part 1: https://youtu.be/6hGH-roVl3w

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