Why matter exists?

Question

it is a complex metaphysical question about the essence of our own existence in the form of atoms and about matter surrounding us. give me your views

Answer 1

If this is a real question, please let me refer you to a real answer... Heidegger's What is Metaphysics? and his Being and Time deal with this question.

In summary, matter is present. it is there. existence is a word whose meaning is more than "there-ness". Existence is a standing out from the background of what is there. It is a throwness out of the thereness. It is purpose and meaning. To ask the existence of matter... matter doesn't exist. Matter is there, but it has no intrinsic meaning or purpose in itself. It is simply matter. Ironic... matter doesn't matter.

It is the act, the purpose, the meaning we give to matter, what we do with matter, how matter behaves and moves, ... in short, how we engage and interpret matter where existence arises and becomes meaningful.

To say that I am atoms in a space of other elements, reduces the phenomenon at hand to a meaningless reduction. the atoms are there. without them there is nothing. but that doesn't ground our being into matter. Quite the opposite. Without our interpretation and meaningful engagement with matter thru language, there is no being, no matter and the "there-ness" of matter is moot.

In other words, matter/atoms... the physico-chemico-biological makeup of everything is a mediated and far removed conceptual impact of our action, our lives, our daily involvement in the world, amongst others and with ourselves.

To define ourselves in term of this phyics-chemistry-biology perspective, is metaphorically akin to defining the whole experience of the Internet, right down to this answer, as simply electronic signals passed back and forth over a network of machines. While true, it misses the point of what the Internet means.

When one asks "who are we? why do we exist?" be wary of answering from a simply reductionistic physics/chemistry/biology perspective (also known as the natural standpoint). It misses the true meaning of who we are.

A better example... when one asks, "what is this American Idol television show phenomenon sweeping the world?", to answer, "well, these electronic signals originating from a particular place and time, copying the events and broadcasting them over a near-global network of receiving electronic equipment to be viewed at the same time but different spaces... that's American Idol."

We would not answer that way. Why? because while it does describe the mechanics and physics and the chemistry... it does describe the phenomenon from the natural standpoint, it entirely and completely misses the meaning, and the reality and truth.... the existence of the show.

Matter does not exist. Matter is there, as the backdrop for the meaningful existence to standup on. Matter is the frame and canvas in which our life's picture, the art of our living, of our existence, emerges and jumps out from.

Thingness altogether is a mediated and distanced background viewpoint from the close and personal and immediate living. To ground this living in thingness was a major philosophical blunder made post-Greek thought (well, some blame aristotle... I blame Descartes... the first real thinker since Socrates, despite his error in grounding everything in a substratum, ignoring the prevalence of experience).

In fact, exist is a greek rooted word from ek stasis, which means, not static. it is the same root, and was the same word for the greeks as ecstasy. for the ancient greeks, existence and ecstasy was the same word... ekstasis... not static, not still, not in the background, standing out, erupting, emerging from the mundanity of thingness, of atoms.

Answer 2

matter is already extremely some states mixed . you're speaking about something , that has mass , volume , and is nice in time.. it truly is already a large purchase of issues to ask from something. formerly you enable it to exist :) There are some sturdy e book on the issue , who make it extremely comprehensible.. style regards from Schrödinger's Cat .

Answer 3

Great question , i asked myself the same not long ago . i really dont know the exact reason , but i believe that our existence in the material world is journey which we should have be in . as one quote points out that life is only a passway to another place , we should take advantage of our lives.

Answer 4

You first need to prove to me that matter actually does exist

Answer 5

"Why" is a human concept. Only the hubris of humans dictates that there has to be a justification to existance, especially of something with the permanence of matter/energy.

There is no "Why" for something that exists permanently.

Answer 6

Why not?

Matter gives life. Matter is energy.

Answer 7

Eyesight is here as a test to see if we can see beyond it.
Matter is here as a test for our curiosity.
Doubt is here as an exam for our vitality

Answer 8

there needs to be some form to attain balance

Answer 9

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