Why is there anything at all?
@InternetRooky I often wonder the same thing. The implications terrify me and sometimes send me into a panic attack.
@gwent yeah the mind can get pretty creative on this topic and sometimes go down a scary path
@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 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. 😬