Questions No One Knows the Answers to

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On a typical day at school,
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endless hours are spent
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learning the answers to questions.
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But right now, we'll do the opposite.
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We're going to focus on questions where you can't learn the answers,
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because they're unknown.
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I used to puzzle about a lot of things as a boy.
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For example, what would it feel like
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to be a dog?
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Do fish feel pain? How about insects?
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Was the Big Bang just an accident?
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And is there a God?
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And if so, how are we so sure that it's a He and not a She?
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Why do so may innocent people and animals suffer terrible things?
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Is there really a plan for my life?
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Is the future yet to be written,
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or is it already written
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and we just can't see it? But then, do I have free will?
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Who am I, anyway? Am I just a biological machine?
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But then, why am I conscious?
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What is consciousness? Will robots become conscious one day?
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I mean, I kind of assumed
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that some day I would be told the answers to all these questions.
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I mean, someone must know, right?
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Huh. Guess what? No one knows.
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Most of those questions puzzle me more now than ever.
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But diving into them is exciting
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because it takes you to the edge of knowledge,
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and you never know what you'll find there.
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So, two questions to kick off this series,
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questions that no one on Earth knows the answer to ...
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Text: How many universes are there?
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Why can't we see evidence of alien life?
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