Seems reasonable to me. But questions this problematic may well bend the boundaries of what our own species is even able to differentiate as reasonable or unreasonable. Why is something more reasonable than nothing? Why is this something more reasonable than another something? Are there in fact parallel universes in which reason revolves around very different laws intertwining space and time, matter and energy?
And all of this seems [for now] to be predicated on particular assumptions about the initial “conditions” in place when existence itself either came into existence out of nothing at all or [even more mind-boggling?] was able to always exist.
Then it’s back to Bryan Magee floundering about regarding just how surreal “being reasonable” can seem here.
Or the name that most prefer: God.
But that’s the beauty of discussions like this. You may well be wrong regarding your own conclusions, but then no one else seems capable of demonstrating that they are right.
More to the point existentially most humans are intent upon believing they are in touch with the real me regarding the right thing to do on this side of the grave, and that “I” will continue on, on the other side of it. That is basically “something” to them in a nutshell. Then it’s back to God or one or another rendition of pantheism.
In our lifetime?
This seems likely to be the case. But then we all get stuck because we don’t know where to take the discussion [and the assumptions] beyond that. How does human psychology fit into an understanding of existence itself? And, sans God, we will tumble over into the abyss that is nothingness for all of eternity.
And this triggers all manner of psychological reactions that, in turn, get swallowed up in the profound mystery of it all.
On the other hand, there is no on/off switch in our brain that allows for this to be easy as “flicking a switch”. This too is embodied in dasein. We all have different experiences that either bring us into or do not bring us into discussions like this.
I dug it, true, but that is no less an “existential contraption”. And, more to the point, my rendition of the hole revolves more around conflicting goods in the is/ought world.
Though, sure, I – “I” – am no less drawn and quartered in regard to the Big Questions.