3 Basic Dilemma's Faced By Humans
The three questions you noted above relate to two approaches foundational in science i.e. reductionism and emergence. “Emergence” is the concept that points out gaps in continuum of scientific knowledge. How matter emerges from energy (or nothingness, if you start from creation ‘ex nihilo’). In simpler words, properties of “emerging” objects/phenomenon cannot be explained based on properties of constituents. Similarly, emergence of life from non-living matter; emergence of consciousness in living matter; and emergence of moral, and aesthetic perception in consciousness are biggest mysteries in science. Reductionist approach of science should clearly lead to explanations, without gaps, from consciousness to life to matter to quantum particles/waves/fields to the “cause” that initiates it all and makes it work from “nothingness” to thinking and questioning minds.