Why is there a world, a cosmos, something, anything instead of absolutely nothing at all? If nothing existed, there would be nothing to explain. That anything exists demands some kind of explanation. Of all the big questions, this is the biggest. Why anything? Why not nothing? What can we learn from the absence of nothing?

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Colin McGinn is a British philosopher, currently Professor of Philosophy and Cooper Fellow at the University of Miami.

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