Existence!

9th August 2019

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I have not written much in past. I will try to put my thoughts into my writings. The writings will look very different, as I will not restrict myself to any conventionality. The topic I choose technically reflects why I am even writing something. What I write is completely my own thoughts, may or may not be true. Remember, the word “true” itself is kind of not absolute.

I often ask myself the question why I am here, in the earth, more specifically why we are, we means the entire creature on the earth. Why should one ask such a silly question (!), which definitely has no answer. I think the question makes a great sense to me because I am an atheist; a theist will laugh at this question as he/she will now get the opportunity to justify the concept of god. I used the word concept of god, rather than using god, simply because to me concept of god makes better sense and the topic is worthy as a research. But, the question is why human introduced the concept of god at the first place. I believe this has some serious link with the very first question I asked. Though at that time they might not had a very well defined communication channel, even I doubt the concept of proving or disproving was relevant at that point of time, still I believe the brain has already evolved to almost close to the level currently we hold. Remember a thousand year is roughly only 30 generations. The very concept of god helped the initial thinkers resolve many big questions, and that’s what I believe the beginning of the creationism. Now, when I am writing this, we have advanced to such an extent that almost everything around us is explained by an appropriate logic. Starting with philosophy now we have crossed many milestones in scientific discovery. Now, if we remove the bug of the concept of god, we will again land on the same very first question I asked.

Before asking why we are here, we must ask what we are. This new question makes better sense as it asks about our contents, behavior, and many other things using which we have categorized animals, plants, and others into different species. If we keep aside our thinking, things are quite well understood in the scientific framework. We, the humans, have become the most advanced species on earth, achieving unimaginable powers by scientifically utilizing our resources. Though the theory of evolution suggests, we, all the animals, might have started from the same single celled first creature, then divided according to circumstances. We may say ourselves as a colony of cells organized in a highly efficient manner, so as to increase the possibility of their survival. Now comes the work of our brain, which creates mesh with all our understandings, our thinking. I feel, when we humans identify ourselves, we identify the sophisticated and unique thoughts of ours combined with the memory in store in our brain. I feel this thinking machinery as our fundamental identity, which is a very general conception, means everyone has the very similar thinking machinery.

One thing I always wonder, is there any link between the fundamentality of us and the fundamentality of the universe. A single galactic mishap will destroy earth without leaving a pinch of our existence. Then, why the hell the consciousness and intelligence within us has come into the picture at first place, without a guarantee of its safeguard. Once “We” will be gone, even the concept of questioning will vanish, as there will be no one to question, the world will remain as a piece of giant rock with millions trillions of lifeless companion. Will that, a new life form will start, may be in million or billion years, as if the cycle of life is always a loop. Now appeared a concept of new life (!). By asking this question we trivialized the concept of extra-terrestrial life, the biggest question is do they even exist (!). The presence of trillions of planets guarantees the presence of such life, if we could, why not others. I think this can save us from the so called existential crisis. This is definitely not the end of the question; rather the very beginning of understanding of the meaning of our very “existence”!!