"Oh, and also that the universe exists at all"
That's the one to keep coming back to. Could've been nothin.
That's the one to keep coming back to. Could've been nothin.
https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2021/04/why-does-the-uni...
> That even if, as most scientific-minded people seem to assume, there is no afterlife, that’s not ideal, but is much better than other possibilities like, say, being tortured for eternity.
Like, we could all be a bunch of Boltzmann brains[1] popping into existence in an empty universe, writhing with unimaginable pain in every pseudo-neuron of our temporary brains. But it's not like that, at least yet. Which is pretty cool.