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Ask HN: What is one question you want answered before you die?

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Science has brought about many new realities to us in the last 150 years. If you could have the answer to one question (scientific or not) what would that question be and why?

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  What's Outside the Simulation? [1]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YIVf3P3zq7g

It's simulations all the way down. What's at the very bottom? An entity hopelessly trying to escape the death of its own Universe. In fact, all of existence will end in .0000001 seconds but for us that's 100 billion years. But it will end (sorry superior God-like entity).

Is there a "very bottom"? I expect not. (But, I don't know.)

Will it blend?

Where does consciousness originate

Obviously it's an evolutionary trait for us to propogate ourselves more effectively. Now the question is, why do living beings want to propogate themselves whereas inanimate objects don't?

Hey now, who are we to judge the mating habits of rocks?

Why do you think it’s obvious?

Consciousness allows an ordered individual to stay ordered (survive and then reproduce).

> Obviously it's an evolutionary trait for us to propogate ourselves more effectively.

That doesn't answer the question of where it originates though.

Originates from order. Once the disorder after the big bang slowed down, planets formed and then order started to form. At some point, the beings created from increasing order started to have conscious.

Who brought me here?! And why :)

Why is JavaScript so popular?

what should I have done to extend my (healthy) lifespan for a decade or more.

Roswell. Just admit it.

How not to die.

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