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Physics can describe how a universe evolves from an initial state, and even how a quantum state might arise from 'nothing'. Each such answer assumes laws and a framework that exist already. It may be the only question on this map that could have no answer.

Posed 1714, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz.

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Being and self · Philosophy