On a typical day at school, students spend endless hours learning answers to questions. But let’s do the opposite for a moment and focus on questions that remain unanswered, that are fundamentally unknown.
As a boy, I often wondered about things like what it would feel like to be a dog, whether fish or insects feel pain, or if the Big Bang was merely an accident. Is there a God, and if so, could it be a She instead of a He? Why do so many innocent beings suffer, and is there really a plan for each of us? I
s the future yet to be written, or is it already set in stone, beyond our view? And if so, do we even have free will? Who am I, really? Am I just a biological machine, or is there more? Why am I conscious, and what is consciousness? Will robots one day become conscious too?
I used to assume that eventually, someone would tell me the answers to these questions, that surely someone out there must know. But, surprisingly, no one does. Many of these mysteries puzzle me even more now.
Exploring them is thrilling because it pushes us to the very edges of our knowledge, where we never quite know what we might uncover. So, let’s start with two questions that no one on Earth knows the answers to: How many universes are there? And why can’t we find any evidence of alien life?
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