@InternetRooky To me, a complete layman, it seems beyond probability that nothing would exist as opposed to any existence whatsoever. So.. what happened and why?

@gwent I think we're all laymen on this topic. Yeah it's interesting. I'm going to speculate: If nothing is around to perceive anything (i.e. living creatures), essentially infinity is able to pass more or less instantaneously from the perspective of any potential future observers - so even if its against the odds - infinity passes and probability (however small) becomes irrelevant. We as observers just see the outcome that is already here.

@InternetRooky So if the chance of existence is 1 in infinity, it's almost certain to occur given infinite chances to do so. And we're here on the other side viewing the results of an infinitesimally small chance of existence, wondering how it could have happened. I like that, but it still doesn't satisfy my desire to know why it could ever happen in the first place.

@gwent Yeah I hear you. Like what is the cause and what is it that provides even a 1 in infinity chance.

@InternetRooky I'll tell you the spiral that gives me dread. I follow the thread through my mind arriving at the conclusion that this existence isn't a logical possibility and end up too far inside, fearing that this is a hallucination or dream or coma fantasy. My whole life doesn't exist and I'm trapped in my own head.

Maybe I should have started by sharing that I'm prone to anxiety and panic attacks

@gwent This is reasonable. It does seem like existence is more likely other than how we think of it. If its any consolation, it seems unlikely (statistically, again) that everyone is a figment of YOUR imagination as opposed to any other way around lol. So I think whatever is going on, we're all sharing it together. 😬