The ultimate questions about our world: Why does it exist? In what way does it exist? Does it have a purpose? Could it have not existed at all? Could reality be such that no intelligent being would have appeared? Why does it have the ability to give birth to intelligence? Why is the world the way it is? Why is it so whimsical? What is its structure? Is it finite or infinite? Has it always existed or does it have a beginning? Does it have a prime cause? What lies beyond its limits? Is it eternally evolving or destined to decline in the future? Can intelligent beings live forever? Is the world knowable or not?