Not every question has a satisfying answer because not every question is well posed. That might be the case for questions such as “What happens after you die?” because it depends on whether there is still a “you” after “you” die. Similarly, the question of “Why doesn’t my cat love me?” might be ill posed because we don’t even know if cats can love. Even crisp mathematical questions can fall in this category. Stephen Hawking has suggested that asking “What came before the Big Bang?” is like asking “What is north of the North Pole?” At the North Pole, every direction you walk points south, and
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