October 31, 2024 Reading time: 8 minutes

The key question of our lives is the question of the existence of God (or gods, in the case of polytheism). This question can be framed more generally: Are we merely complex, self-operating mechanisms created by random forces, atoms and molecules that are entirely indifferent to human beings?

There is considerable evidence suggesting that we are more than just robots with computational capabilities and that the Universe is not merely a materialistic "thing" created by a quantum fluctuation during the Big Bang, which happened to remain stable long enough to support self-organizing molecules and subsequent evolutionary processes.

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