Questions that came to me throughout my life. For some I'll try to provide an answer — when I do, a link will appear to a page that explores the topic and offers a coherent, in-depth or brief response. Some were written years ago, some in recent weeks. Continuously updated.

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1. What would the happiest day of your life look like if anything were possible?

2. How do you build an offshore gas platform?

3. Can particles be measured without interacting with them? Is that even possible?

4. How do black holes ‘pull in’ light if light has no mass?

5. Why do they claim every creation must have a creator? Is that actually true?

6. What is the average income of Gucci’s target audience?

7. Can an object move through time only, without moving through space? And vice versa?

8. What’s different about the brains of people with perfect autobiographical memory?

9. Why do many scientists [do they?] believe that the Big Bang emerged from nothing? Couldn’t there have been something before?

10. It seems humans have an instinct to favor what resembles them — is that true, and if so, why?

11. A consciousness related question: if I have access to processes like breathing, smelling, and thinking — why don’t I have control over others, like hormone release or full control over dreams and imagination?

12. Could dreams be memories from a parallel version of ourselves? of the universe?

13. If God exists and created this universe, is this the only way to create a universe capable of supporting intelligent life?

14. Does real love exist? Is there something “beyond” the hormones firing in the brain?

15. Assuming the multiverse exists — is it reasonable to claim that the infrastructure connecting universes is a fractal system?

16. When did humans develop the need to believe in an entity that created and/or controls our world? Has it always existed? What can we say with certainty?

17. How can the brain work on itself — and why does that happen at all?

18. Is our brain the most complex in the animal kingdom? What does “complex” even mean in this context?

19. How do we know when the agricultural era began or ended?

20. How do psychological defense mechanisms develop and manifest in the brain — repression, anxiety, post-trauma, and others?

21. What is the universal trait shared by all life on Earth?

22. How are political beliefs shaped by environment and exposure?

23. Why do turtles live so long?

24. Why is the ultimate goal of organisms — or genes, some would say — to reproduce and survive?

25. Can an artificial substitute for palm oil be invented?

26. Why do we need to feel special?

27. How do different animals actually communicate through body language?

28. How do earphones work?

29. When you combine the equations of relativity and quantum mechanics you get infinite values — could that be the “correct” answer? Is a unified theory of everything even possible?

30. How is a one-way mirror made, and how does it work?

31. Can cannabis cause an increase in loose associative thinking?

32. What’s the deal with expectations — especially in the context of the placebo effect? How is it logical that they shape our reality?

33. Could there be parts of the electromagnetic spectrum we haven’t discovered yet?

34. When stars die or are born they release ultraviolet radiation — so if we looked at the night sky in UV light, would we see those moments?

35. Is anyone trying to resolve the grandfather paradox of time travel mathematically, using the parallel universes framework?

36. How harmful is it, really, to stare at screens all day?

37. Has the future already happened?

38. What are colors if no creature perceives them? Do colors exist in reality?

39. How do I know sad music is sad? What makes a happy beat happy? Why is this universal? Do we have answers?

40. Is it true that most people are, statistically, unwise, unhealthy, in debt, and unhappy?

41. Why do great thinkers [almost always] conclude: “be good”? Why should I?

42. Could dragon myths have originated from humans encountering dinosaur fossils?

43. Can infinity exist in any form inside a finite universe — in actual reality?

44. What do we know with certainty is universal — across the universe and across life?

45. Is the universe objectively knowable? Can we, as humans, get close enough to absolute truth?

46. Are humans in the process of creating entities [AI Systems] unlike any that have ever existed? At least on Earth.

47. Do alternative medicine practices genuinely help patients beyond placebo — and if so, what explains it?