Thoughts on origins

[robvalue]

First off, I'm far from convinced any of this is real. Not sure if that's relevant. Solipsism is something I can never overcome.

But after making the usual pragmatic assumptions, I'm left with no idea. "I don't know" is the most underused and under appreciated phrase going. Religion thrives on how uncomfortable people are saying it. The idea that religion picks up where science leaves off is ridiculous. It picks up only by making guesses which are of no use except for comfort, or to control people.

Anyhow, if I was forced to guess at gunpoint, the only serious possibilities I'd consider are:

1- Our reality is all there is, and has always existed in some form. That doesn't mean we're actually even aware of most of it, though. Maybe we will never be aware of all of it. Our understanding, I suspect, is very primitive. We may have fragmented from another reality.

2- This is a manifestation of a process in another reality such as a computer simulation, or just as the byproduct of something.

3- This is part of a "many worlds" multiverse.

That's it really. Even though I have virtually no confidence in putting any of those forward, I have zero confidence in any other explanation I've heard.