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I’ve written about thisproblem before—the “why is there something rather
thannothing”problem—which Iregard as thesecondmost important unsolved
mystery of thecosmos. Thefirst, of course,beinglove, asimilarly
unfathomablemystery, one aspect ofwhich I wrote aboutrecently in
exploring the implications of a single line bythe great poet Philip
Larkin (“What willsurvive of us islove”—survive uswhere, forinstance?).
The thirdgreatestmystery, incase you care, is themystery of
consciousness,its origin andlocus, mindversus meat (brain).