The Pursuit of Truth

Golgi-stained neurons in human hippocampal tissue
(Image Credit: By MethoxyRoxy - Own work, CC BY-SA 2.5, Link)

Why are we here? Why do things exist? Is there a purpose behind the universe and our lives, or are we—and everything else—just here for no reason but what we make of it? In short, what is Truth? These questions, and many like them—dealing with the ultimate nature, cause, and destiny of ourselves and of everything that is—have been the subject of philosophical speculation and religious debate for thousands of years. Might there be a reason for our lives and for the universe itself that transcends what we can observe with our senses alone? If so, can the aggregate of neurons we call the brain know what it is? Or has nature played a sinister trick on us by giving us a thirst for a purpose that is not there, or at best, unknowable?

The thin backlit atmosphere of our planet can be regarded as symbolic of nearly everything we experience in our day-to-day lives, with the darkness of the infinite unknown beyond. To be sure, science has vastly extended our knowledge into what was previously unknown (both above and below our feet), and will continue to do so. But will science—can science—alone, answer our deepest questions?

Earth Crescent, International Space Station
Image Credit: NASA ID ISS040-E-083604

This website is dedicated to the thesis that the answers to these questions can be known, and that the answers are more than satisfying to the human craving for a value and purpose greater than what we can manufacture by our own inventiveness. To give the searcher evidence to assess the feasibility of this thesis is the goal of this website.

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