Nature

What is reality? What can be known? What does it mean to exist within nature?

Nature is a long-form series about existence, the universe, knowledge, complexity, information, language, logic, computation, mind, intelligence, consciousness, free will, belief, reality, and the deepest questions we are able to ask.

The series moves from the physical world to the systems we use to understand it, and finally to the strange fact that nature has produced minds capable of asking what nature is.

Part 1 · The First Questions

1. What Is Nature?

2. What Is the Universe?

3. What Does It Mean to Exist?

4. Why Is There Something Rather Than Nothing?

5. What Is Reality?

6. Can Reality Exist Without an Observer?

7. What Can We Actually Know?

8. Can Everything Be Explained?

9. Does the Universe Need an Explanation?

10. Can the Universe Understand Itself?

Part 2 · Nothing

11. Being, Non-Being, and Nothing

12. Parmenides, Zeno, and the Problem of Non-Being