On The Nature of Existence

An attempt to construct a rational argument on the nature of existence while keeping Occam's Razor in mind and trying to make as few assumptions as possible.

• Our experience of time and language seems to indicate that we are in an finite universe. Phenomena have beginnings and endings. Most languages have a past, present, future tense. Our current understanding claims that this universe is some 13+ billion years old. However, the question arises as to what was before that? Is there an end to time? If so, what comes after that end? The question of before that, and before that, ... leads to an infinite recursion. This issue is resolved in some aspects of Indian and Buddhist philosophy by hypothesizing a state without context (including time) out of which all contexts arise. This we'll assume as a given for the purposes of this exploration.
• NLP has this notion of 2nd position, i.e., take a perceptual perspective from another agent's perspective. I have been trying for many years to take second position to that state out of which all contexts arise. It has been insightful for me in showing me how our religions and philosophies tend to be very much primate oriented (since we are primates). A good example of primate psychology in our religions and philosophies is how they put us at the center of creation. Whether it is our god in religion or our ability (limits) to reason as an absolute measure for our religions and our sciences. From a purely probabilistic viewpoint it is far more likely that we are in the middle of a spectrum of value to the universe and its unfolding.
• Along the way, in 2002, I started reading A New Kind of Science by Wolfram. He was trying to understand cellular automata (simple rules that can create complex behaviours). To get a deep understanding of these rules he created a universe (8 bits) in which he could explore all possibilities. This notion combined with my ongoing attempts at second positioning that state out of which all contexts arise gave me the very compelling intuition that that is the nature of infinity. Infinity was / is / will create all possible forms of existence. What else does it have to do but do everything?
• With this notion, a number of problems that arise in religions and philosophies disappear. For example, if God is good why is there evil?  If all possibilities are unfolded, there is no issue of right / wrong, just / unjust, good / bad. These issues only arise in specific unfoldings. From  a meta perspective, if all possibilities are unfolded, there are no such conundrums. In the sum total of all possible unfoldings, the scales are perfectly balanced.
• Of course, trying to understand infinity with a 3 pound primate brain is a fun exercise in trying to encapsulate / name / categorize / .... that which is beyond all these attributes.
• Trying to put into words a view into infinity, what a strange algorithm this neurology runs?