Why don’t I get to make that observation?
It’s not like my reasoning isn’t clear.
Philosophy still hasn’t done a serious job of facing the fact that we are evolved biological sensing creatures,
Instead they still rather talk about the Brain in Vat - or the Contrived Hard Problems, such as the impending “end of reality”, or the alive/dead cat that’s actually a subatomic spark and not a cat at all, impossibility of understanding consciousness through biology, the need for metaphysics, and other dead-end concepts, it’s more mindset framing and storytelling than scientific inquiry.
The past century has seen millennia worth of questions and wondering being resolved with amazing details and supporting physical facts - what is so valuable about wondering why there’s something, rather than nothing - over getting caught up with our new appreciation for our essence? Not to mention facing the current human situation, and the need for humans to live through it and perhaps even hang on to their sanity as weather related destruction gets steadily worse.
Why is there something over nothing? My gosh, yes I would think that’s something that goes through every growing intelligent child’s mind. And we resolve it and get on with living in the real world, while philosophers get to be kids all their lives.
Lordie knows I’ve done my philosophical dance with nothingness, tasted it and that was enough of that, living is ever so much better, not to mention real, at least so long as my lungs are filling and my heart is pumping, once my body dies I’ll be ready for it.
If there were nothing we wouldn’t be here to think about it!
Why is that an unsatisfactory answer?
Oh yeah, unless one is still stuck on trying to figure out the Mind of God.
Then it makes sense.
But once one figures out that the “Mind of God” is actually something one’s own mind(*) created, all that gets blown to bits.
Where are the philosophers wresting with that modern realization? (*Individually and collectively)
But I don’t hear folks discussing those two items, instead Kuhn asks the same repetitive questions, like a dog chasing its tail, ‘explain god to me’, ‘why is there something rather than nothing’, yada yada. (sorry I think perhaps I overloaded on his podcast and hit the point of diminishing returns, sorry for not mustering more respect, I appreciate he is accomplished and I’m being slightly flippant.)
Still I get to observe that at this point in human history all that has taken on a vacuous irrelevance to what’s happening to this planet and how that will increasingly impact every aspect of our human society and our individual lives.
By what right to we think the universe owes us an explanation, anyways?
Which is sort of what “Closer to Truth” is all about. - or for that matter I wonder why these people resume they have the faculty to receive all of the universe’s secrets, even if handed to them on a plate?
Me thinks, too wrapped in the wonder of their own extraordinary minds, to recognize anything as grand as the ultimate answer to everything.
We haven’t even wrapped our heads around Evolution beyond acknowledging that it must have happened, but it’s still something that happened somewhere out there, not inside of oneself, certainly nothing that viscerally relates to us.
Or at least I’ve read precious little that indicates that sort of deep appreciation for what this human body, we exist within is all about. Or how it interacts with its surroundings.
Me, I can’t escape that reality, every time I take Maddy for a walk around this piece of property. (or any other time for that matter) Now I’ve been here going on 12 years and gotten to watch the landscape and river and plants and animals shifting, turns out no two years are the same - like an orchestra playing variations on a theme. I know what I see and sense and that is what gives me the right to make the claims I make - I believe I know what I’m talking about, which is why I keep striving to better explain the things I do.