Around five years ago, I started writing in earnest. I was going to call my book God is a Programmer, and therein I would answer the question, “What?” It was my inclination at the time to avoid the question “Why?” Well, while I was sitting at coffee today with a friend, I admitted to him that I’ve given up on the book, which means I don’t have to keep the answer to myself any more. Lucky you.

The universe is emergence.

There is no randomness, because none is needed. Minds are special, but not unique; there can be no super-mind: thought emerges with certain limitations. Constants and the equations they feed are local phenomena, generally useful, but not usefully general. There are rules, but they can only be disproved, never proved.

“There is a God” and “There is no God” are just two ways of saying the same thing, which is that existence has order, and humans can understand that order.

Looking at the parts does not explain the whole, and looking at the whole does not imply the parts.

Philosophical arguments about thingyness and existitude are important and real. They tell us nothing about what we see and touch, but everything about what we do not.

I suppose there is more, but it mostly flows from that first point:

The universe is emergence.