Amazing how uncomfortable humans are with ignorance. Are we alone or not in the universe? Is there life after death? Is existence infinite? We'll never know. I wish we could be OK with that. "I don't know" is a toxic phrase for leaders to utter, so they prevaricate and confabulate.
Spirituality, to the self, is largely a mechanism to sweep dukkha and its pointlessess, and lack of nuance in messy, real-world, imprecise interpretations under a rug of happy-clappy self-/mutually-reinforced delusions, blissful pseudosimplicity and sentimentality.
The big, unanswerable questions include:
1. Reincarnation: yes/no?
1.5. If yes, are we all one or are there multiple perception entities?
2. Why are you you and me me? (1. asks “am I and you the same?” implicitly)
3. Does cognitive dissonance allow “good”-self-image people to live with their committing unspeakable horrors?
4. If cancers’ semi-“life” existence can be explained by increasing a host’s entropy, why don’t most “pathogens” improve a host’s fitness, enable the host to find, store or expend more energy, reproduce and extend the host’s lifespan? Since when thr host dies, the cancer dies.
5. Is there an absolute limit of entropy?
6. How much neural complexity is needed for self-awareness?
7. Does global intelligence have a maximum useful upper limit?
8. If each piece of a person were systematically-replaced with inorganic parts of close overall function, does the individual retain rights of an organic person?
8.1. Could they be sued for healing or modifying themselves because of intellectual property?
8.2. Could they be legally owned, bought, sold, etc.?
