Contingency

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I would say no one knows. If I'm wrong about that, I'd be interested to see. There are big problems when trying to "investigate" outside of what may very well be a closed reality of space/time. We hit extrapolation errors and the fallacy of composition very regularly, and we can't back anything up with evidence. Of course, if it turns out not to be closed, there is more hope.

There is a logical problem with assuming contingency, which is that whatever it is contingent on is presumably also contingent on something. This is one of the reasons why "first cause" arguments are so flawed. They just arbitrarily drop the assumption when they've reached their desired point.

It could still have been "created" by something, without being contingent upon this thing's continued existence. Or it could be a manifestation of a process in another reality. Who knows. It appears to me that these are questions beyond the scope of our enquiry, perhaps forever.