Could there be a logical explanation for our universe? (# 4)

Planck view of the whole sky by NASA

This article sets out a possible foundation for a logical explanation of the origin of our universe. The aim is to set out ideas about how a logical explanation could be developed rather than to claim discovery of THE foundation.

Modern science seems to suggest that ‘we are random fluctuations in a meaningless universe’. This implication is emotionally unappealing. The lack of appeal doesn’t make the science wrong but it does motivate a challenge to find an alternative logical explanation. The Big Bang theory suggests either the universe was created out of nothing; or the universe was born out of the ‘ashes’ of a previous universe in a cycle which has no beginning or end. A variant of such ideas is that our universe is part of a multiverse consisting of all possible universes.

None of modern science’s ideas about the origin of the universe address the issue of providing meaning to our lives. Many scientists postulate that some kind of consciousness created our universe but there is little agreement among such scientists on the origin of that consciousness or what the purpose of consciousness might be in creating our universe.

A less popular ontology is the idea that our reality emerges out of mathematics. A relative lack of discussion of this possibility may be due to the fact that there is…