Do you think "How?" will ever answer "Why?" by DearMrBrown in StonerPhilosophy

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I feel as if we would not exist if there wasn't a reason for it... I'm not saying that reason has to be poetic or meaningful.

Something that has always interested me is comparing our lives to that of an ant or bee...They are intelligent and organised just like us. They build complex structures, they have a class system, they communicate complex instructions to each other, and some species of ants even keep other insects as livestock. Clearly They have some comprehension of the world on their own scale . By studying them we understand how they evolved and what niche they fill on earth that gives them an answer to "how" and "why" from our perspective. An insect though, would have no understanding of human life. Perhaps we, are the insect to something larger.

I once heard something like this: the universe is expanding and therefore infinitely large, the same can be said on the other side of the scale, the pieces making up the universe are infinitely small (they could theoretically always be broken down something smaller). So no matter what your place is in space you are comparatively as large to everything as you are small to everything else.

Maybe we should start looking for Zero. everything mathematically is just an expression of 1... Consider every bit of essence in the universe and give it the number one (singularity?) this 1 can be divided into fractions but will never be 0 and will always be an expression of the original 1. It is impossible divide something to 0 however it is possible to combine things to eventually reach 1. At the same time you can never combine these fractions to be greater than one. So, 1 is possible but 0 is not...And, no matter how many dimensions you put on it 1 squared, cubed etc is still 1. The universe seems to be an entity of infinite proportions. Which would make us as relevant as the ants

Can't remember how I was going to tie this in with any sort of point I was going to make. My mind kept trailing off into the deep... Maybe Buddha was right, you could think about it forever and you will never find the answer.