100 Most Fascinating Questions

[kieranperez]

Leo's Top 64 Questions + my own additions to the list

1. What is existence?
2. How come existence exists at all?
3. What does it mean for something to existence?
4. Why is reality structured as it is?
5. Are there other ways reality can be structured as it is?
6. Why are the Laws of Physics structured the way they are?
7. Which comes first, Consciousness or Matter?
8. What is Consciousness?
9. How does Consciousness come about?
10. What is Matter?
11. What is Space?
12. What is Time?
13. What is Energy?
14. What is a thought?
15. Where do thoughts come from?
16. Who am I?
17. What am I?
18. What is outside the Universe?
19. Is our Universe infinite or finite?
20. What existed before the Big Bang?
21. What is God?
22. How does material interact with immaterial?
23. What qualifies something as real?
24. What qualifies something as material and immaterial?
25. What governs what's possible and impossible?
26. What is the speed/rate of Absolute Infinity?
27. What governs emergent properties?
28. Does existential value exist?
29. Why does anything exist at all?
30. What determines something is an object?
31. Does reality have a bottommost scale?
32. Does reality have a topmost scale?
33. What sets the scale for reality to have a scale at all?
34. Does the universe on the existential level have a purpose?
35. Does the universe have an agenda?
36. Does external reality exist at all?
37. How did life start?
38. Where did life all come from?
39. How do we know what we know?
40. How do we come to anything at all?
41. How can I know anything  for certain?
42. Can anything be certain?
43. What makes a justification valid?
44. Can any truth be absolute?
45. Are some truths not absolute?
46. Why do billions of people believe in God?
47. What makes something more true than something else?
48. Why do people disagree about what's good/moral v. bad/evil/immoral?
49. Is Good & Bad an objective truth?
50. How come intelligent people delude themselves?
51. What creates Consciousness?
52. How can I trust myself?
53. How do I know I haven't been indoctrinated?
54. What is Science?
55. Is there something more objective than Science?
56. Does Science have limits?
57. What purpose does Science ultimately serve?
58. What is Mathematics?
59. What makes Mathematics valid?
60. What are the limits of Mathematics?
61. What purpose does Mathematics serve?
62. What is rationality?
63. Is rationality a feature of the human mind?
64. What are the limits of rationality?
65. What is the most trust worthy process to determine what is true?
66. How do we evaluate the limits of the human mind and how it derives what is true?
67. How do other species see the world?
68. How can we be certain about our knowledge?
69. Why is human understanding taken as the ultimate truth?
70. What are the blind spots of humanity?
71. What is language?
72. How do animals understand the world?
73. How do we know we can trust anything at all?
74. Which model of reality is most accurate?
75. What is Truth?
76. What is Understanding?
77. Where does Understanding come from?
78. What is the Ultimate Truth?
79. What sets the standard for there to be an Ultimate Truth?
80. What form does the Ultimate Truth take?
81. Are there Truths that can't be comprehended?
82. Is reality ultimately understandable?
83. How do I/we know I'm/we're not being deluded?
84. How can I be sure I exist at all?
85. How can I be sure I don't exist?
86. How did I come into Being?
87. If I'm not in control of my thoughts, who or what is?
88. Do I or do I not have a role in reality?
89. If I have a role in reality, what is it?
90. If I have a role in reality, how do I come to that truth?
91. Why am I conscious?
92. How come science has explained consciousness?
93. Why does consciousness exist at all?
94. How is perception possible?
95. What unifies our senses?
96. Are there higher levels of consciousness beyond that of the highest possible level of consciousness of a human?
97. Does consciousness have a limit?
98. How are consciousness's separated?
99. Is consciousness actually all one, not actually separated, but human beings just aren't aware of it due to any limitations that we as a species might have regarding in our current collective level of consciousness?
100. What are the laws governing Qualia?

[Nahm]

@kieranperez this is like throwing a lamb into the lion’s den you know. 5 bucks says a new record is set for most replies. And on the back of the no brain video. Well done sir. 

[kieranperez]

@Nahm not sure if that's a compliment nor what to make of that lol

[Nahm]

@kieranperez these are the jokes. I love the list. Great post! 44 is a doozy for me right now. I want to say yes, but of course, no...maybe yes, nah probably not. Can’t have one without the other, since there is neither...and fucking both. ?    # 100 instantly made me remember my last trip. Thanks for that! ? That list is like a sifter where everything goes in and nothing comes out, and nothing goes in and everything comes out. 

[kieranperez]

I really don’t wanna take that much credit. The majority of this comes from @Leo Gura and I just expanded on a few of them. Really wanted to use this to help give me a better idea of what my PERSONAL Top 100 questions in life are that can help guide me in finding and living my Life Purpose

[Leo Gura]

45 minutes ago, kieranperez said:

92. How come science has explained consciousness?

Correction: How come science has NOT explained consciousness?

Trying to sneak that materialist paradigm in there, eh?

[Faceless]

Doesn’t anyone value the significance of a quiet mind? 

I do. I realize that all I need to learn and understand is myself/thought. In this understanding the mind becomes quiet. A good question to ask oneself is why do we need to know everything? 

What is the motive behind this? 

I aprreciate not knowing everything. 

What do u guys think? 

 

[Leo Gura]

@Faceless Don't confuse not knowing with Not Knowing.

[Hsinav]

All these good questions make me think of a quote from Nisargadatta - "the absolute, doesn't´know itself at all"

[Faceless]

Thought can never know everything, that’s the point. If thought is limited which it is how can thought capture what is limitless? 

There’s nothing “wrong” with trying to know everything persay, but there’s just more significance to “Know” that we cannot. Trying to know everything is an idication that the one trying know everything doesn’t understand there limitations. And if we don’t understand our limitations do we really understand oursleves?  

Lol..I do enjoy discussing this stuff with u guys though. Thanks ??

 

 

Edited November 28, 2017 by Faceless

[kieranperez]

@Leo Gura fuck that was a typo I swear!!

[Shanmugam]

Buddha has only one answer to all these questions:

"It's just as if a man were wounded with an arrow thickly smeared with poison. His friends & companions, kinsmen & relatives would provide him with a surgeon, and the man would say, 'I won't have this arrow removed until I know whether the man who wounded me was a noble warrior, a brahman, a merchant, or a worker.' He would say, 'I won't have this arrow removed until I know the given name & clan name of the man who wounded me... until I know whether he was tall, medium, or short... until I know whether he was dark, ruddy-brown, or golden-colored... until I know his home village, town, or city... until I know whether the bow with which I was wounded was a long bow or a crossbow... until I know whether the bowstring with which I was wounded was fiber, bamboo threads, sinew, hemp, or bark... until I know whether the shaft with which I was wounded was wild or cultivated... until I know whether the feathers of the shaft with which I was wounded were those of a vulture, a stork, a hawk, a peacock, or another bird... until I know whether the shaft with which I was wounded was bound with the sinew of an ox, a water buffalo, a langur, or a monkey.' He would say, 'I won't have this arrow removed until I know whether the shaft with which I was wounded was that of a common arrow, a curved arrow, a barbed, a calf-toothed, or an oleander arrow.' The man would die and those things would still remain unknown to him.

"In the same way, if anyone were to say, 'I won't live the holy life under the Blessed One as long as he does not declare to me that 'The cosmos is eternal,'... or that 'After death a Tathagata neither exists nor does not exist,' the man would die and those things would still remain undeclared by the Tathagata.

Read more: https://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/mn/mn.063.than.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parable_of_the_Poisoned_Arrow

[Leo Gura]

@Shanmugam There is no doubt that's the answer to the ultimate question.

But also don't forget that there are other minor questions to be asked and contemplated.