You--the editors, and perhaps many of your readers-- have a profound sense of the absurd/tragic/comical nature of human existence. Our unique and mysterious sentience that only our species has evolved out of millions, including the great apes who share an almost identical DNA, has made us truly flukes of the Universe. Yet...yet I sense there is a reason, a reason for everything really.
It's a reasonable feeling, Nolo. Benedictus Spinoza in his Ethics 1, stated your feeling as a principle, the Principle of Sufficient Reason, viz. "Of everything whatsoever a cause or reason must be assigned, either for its existence, or for its non-existence." Later on, the mathematician Godel demonstrated the PSR didn't hold for most mathematics. But who knows?
You--the editors, and perhaps many of your readers-- have a profound sense of the absurd/tragic/comical nature of human existence. Our unique and mysterious sentience that only our species has evolved out of millions, including the great apes who share an almost identical DNA, has made us truly flukes of the Universe. Yet...yet I sense there is a reason, a reason for everything really.
It's a reasonable feeling, Nolo. Benedictus Spinoza in his Ethics 1, stated your feeling as a principle, the Principle of Sufficient Reason, viz. "Of everything whatsoever a cause or reason must be assigned, either for its existence, or for its non-existence." Later on, the mathematician Godel demonstrated the PSR didn't hold for most mathematics. But who knows?