What if ... ?

One of the coolest thing the human being has is the ability of formulating questions and hypothesis. Sometimes, though, they are completely useless.

- Inconsequential questions: What if the universe was a simulation? Well, it is funny to imagine, but it is completely inconsequential: from our point of view life goes the same way with or without it being it a simulation.

- Hidden questions: The question 'What if a benevolent god created the universe?' is hiding a funnier one: 'What if an evil creator did the universe?'. If you think about it, if there was a creator, it is more likely to be a cruel god than a kind one (not a citation, but something I remember from Peter Cave - Can a robot be human?).

- Badly-defined questions: 'What if machines could think?', 'What if machines became intelligent?'. First of all, what does thinking/being intelligent mean? Even if we built a machine that mimicked a human, someone could always say that it is rather a machine, not a human.

- Questions that have no answer: 'Who am I?', 'What is life for?'. Evolution brought us the ability of questioning things, but we don't need to question everything! Even though, it is strange to think that some questions just don't have an answer.

Is the co-presence of man and the universe absurd? - (Funny how Camus defines religion as a philosophical suicide)