Hare Krishna

[The Grand Nudger]

Where was I before I was born?

"You" were nowhere, so far as we can tell. "Where was my car before it was manufactured". I could hazard a guess as to where parts of what would one day become you -could- have been, but I doubt that anyone was gathering data in preparation for your birth so that they might one day satisfy this question of yours at it's most personal level amigo......

What will happen after I die?

The sun will rise and set, rain will fall on rooftops, people will go to work...etc etc etc

Why did I take the birth I took?

Do you imagine that you had some role in that decision? That would be a strange assumption..don't you think?

Why this gender, this race, this mother and father?

In human beings, sex is determined by the presence of a "Y" chromosome, the default "XX" being female. In human beings, sex gametes have a haploid number of chromosomes which is doubled during fertilization to form a "complete cell", the 23rd pair of the chromosome determining sex by the presence of the above mentioned XY or XX (this -is- high school biology btw....). Your "race" whatever that may be, is a collection of inheritable traits that we've decided to make some sort of dividing line between ourselves for whatever reason. This last one seems nonsensical...if you were born from some other mother and father (mine- for example) you would still be "you"...just a different "you" call it, for the lulz.."me".

Sometimes I want things that I can't have - why?

Because your desires exceed your means or ability?

Why do I have to get old and die?

This is a really interesting one. One of the more interesting observations of this is that a compromise is made between aging and cancerous cells. I'll try to dig up some of my favorites for you if you're interested in this as anything more than a general question meant to sound deep and worthy but ultimately just a sound bite.

That's a just a few questions off the cuff, I could think of zillions more, but maybe we'll just start with a few simple ones.

Can biology or physics, or any other scientific discipline, answer these questions? And if so, is there evidence to support the answers?

Yup. Biology and physics can answer those things which pertain to biology and physics (and all of those answers are demonstrable...that's the whole point). Still plenty we're looking into.

What would such a theory even look like, and what type of evidence would one expect to support it? Can anyone say anything about those questions?

I guess that depends on who you ask. Some folks feel that all of our current theories are very suited or describing interactions at the level (and of the type) that they were designed to describe..and that if you took them all as a whole we have a TOE. Others look for a more thorough and complete unification of all the sciences (for a long while physics was pointed to for the likely candidate).