Re: As the cosmos goes from infinitely hot/dense to infinitely cold/sparse . . .

On 26/10/2024 21:25, Relf wrote:

rBowman: Heidegger asked 'Why are there beings at all rather than nothing?'
     in 'Introduction to Metaphysics' . . . my head started to hurt.
 As the cosmos goes from infinitely hot/dense to infinitely cold/sparse,
"residual eXergy" (potential entropy) fuels both "life" (games) & gravity.

Ah, but that doesn't answer Heidegger's stupid question. Which is in any case a *leading* question that assumes that the question 'why anything?' *has* an answer.
You are merely quoting another metaphysical *narrative*
The more accessible form of Heidegger general whine might be quoted as
"Why was *I* born"?
To which the answer can be either 'cos your mom and dad had a Big Bang on a saturday night' or 'because the Big Bang contained implicitly the fact of your existence, and you are just doing what was pre-ordained'
Neither of which are particularly satisfying.
In fact if you delve deep enough you come to understand that the question 'why?' is an utterly human one, doesn't apply to the Universe at large and if extrapolated beyond its applicable context to Universal Purpose will likely lead you to a supernatural solution like 'Cos God did it'
The real philosophers are not those who attempt to answer unanswerable questions, but those who clearly identify which questions are in fact unanswerable, and like bomb disposal experts plant little flags saying 'here be mines'. Or 'a critique of Pure Reason'
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The biggest threat to humanity comes from socialism, which has utterly diverted our attention away from what really matters to our existential survival, to indulging in navel gazing and faux moral investigations into what the world ought to be, whilst we fail utterly to deal with what it actually is.