torekp comments on The map of ideas how the Universe appeared from nothing - Less Wrong
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I lose no sleep over this. I think people who do are just confused by language.
I'd say that if you examine your concept of "why", you find it presupposes existence.
This. And if one is willing to entertain Tegmark, approximately 100% of universes will be non-empty, so the epistemic question "why a non-empty universe?" gets no more bite than the ontological one.