The Big Questions

The Big Questions is a limited time event which mainly focuses on Philosophy. It features 7 generators and <number of upgrades> upgrades that produce Questions .
== Story ==
=== Opening ===
=== Ending ===
== Objectives & Rewards ==
Explore Philosophy (11 Requirements)
# Collect 10 Ethics → 2
# Collect 25 Political Philosophy → 3
# Collect 1.00e10 → Confusion Badge
# Collect Humanism, 10 Metaphysics → 4
# Collect 150 Political Philosophy, Ship of Theseus → 5
# Collect What am I? → 6
# Collect 30 Spirit, Theology → 7
# Collect Why? → Open-Mindedness Badge
# Collect 3.00e26, Absurdism → 8
# Collect The Answer Is... → 15
# Collect What's the Question → Enlightenment Badge
=== Badges ===
This exploration holds some rewards already mentioned above. The main ones being these three badges: Bronze: Confusion, Silver: Open-Mindedness and Gold: Enlightenment which have an effect on all other evolutionary branches, speeding up every simulation by 1%, and also speeding up production in future The Big Questions simulations by 5, 10 and 15% respectively.
==== Confusion ====
==== Open-Mindedness ====
==== Enlightenment ====
== Generators ==
The The Big Questions event features <number of generators> which produce the event currency Questions .
=== Questions ===
Icon	Name 	Description 	Base Cost	Base Production	Requires
 	Philosophy 	Philosophy — literally "love of wisdom" — delves into the mysteries of existence. This essential human field of study interrogates reality, reason, the mind, the universe, and even knowledge itself. 	25 	1 	Uncertainty
 	Ethics 	The field of ethics, or moral philosophy, studies beliefs about right and wrong and how we should treat others. Ethics are also codes of behavior adopted by communities or professions — like the physician's oath to "do no harm."	2,000 	12 	What is Right?
 	Political Philosophy	This field of study deals with citizens, institutions, and governments. It asks important questions about the nature of societies and how they should be organized. 	150,000 	300 	
 	Epistemology 	This is the branch of philosophy that deals with knowledge: what it is, how to acquire it, and how we use it to form beliefs around the world. 	300.00 M 	100,000 	
 	Metaphysics 	Meaning "beyond the physical," metaphysics studies questions of reality, identity, being, causality, and possibility. It explores the relationship of mind to matter and the nature of existence. 	10.00 T 	800.00 M 	
 	Spirit 	Some people believe in the spirit, a vital force animating all living things. Questions about the spirit—does it exist? What is it? Who or what has one? — to get to the heart of what makes us human. 	1.20 qi 	100.00 T 	
 	The Meaning of Life 	The biggest questions of them all: What is my purpose? How should I live my life? Is there some greater meaning to all of this? 	2.00 Sp 	100.00 qi 	
== Upgrades ==
=== Miscellaneous Effects ===
Icon	Name 	Description 	Cost	Effect	Requires
 	Uncertainty	We can't form or test hypotheses about right and wrong, the purpose of existance, or our own natures. Some questions can't be resolved through scientific inquiry - is there another way?	10 	- 	-
=== Philosophy Efficiency ===
Icon	Name 	Description 	Cost 	Efficiency 	Requires
 	What is Right? 	How should we behave? What is right and wrong, and how do we know the difference? Who decides what's best? 	150 	100% 	Philosophy
 	What is Society?	What does it mean to live in a society? Do we owe anything to other people? How should we balance the needs of groups and individuals?	300,000 	3000% 	x1 Philosophy, x1 Ethics
 	What is True? 	How do we know what is true? Is everything subjective, or is there some ultimate truth we can discover? 	200.00M 	2500% 	x1 Philosophy, x1 Political Philosophy
 	What is Real? 	What is reality? Why is there something rather than nothing? Where did the universe come from in the first place? 	1.50T 	250000% 	x1 Philosophy, x1 Epistemology
 	What am I? 	What does it mean to be a conscious entity? Do we have a fixed, eternal identity seperate from our bodies? What makes humans special? 	1.00 qi 	5E+07% (50 million) 	x1 Philosophy, x1 Metaphysics
 	Why? 	Is there a purpose to life? What's it all for? 	12.00 Sp	5E+08% (500 million)	Code of Law, Anarchism, Empiricism, Skepticism, Ontology, Solipsism
 	The Answer Is...	I almost have it... Calculating... 	1.50 No 	2500000% 	Thinking...
=== Ethics Efficiency ===
Icon	Name 	Description 	Cost 	Efficiency	Requires
 	What Is Ethical?	How should we act towards others? How do we decide what behavior is ethical? What happens when different principles come into conflict? 	8,000 	100% 	Ethics
 	Dharma 	This is a key concept in many traditions from the Indian subcontinent, including Hinduism and Buddhism. It's sometimes defined as "righteousness" or "merit". Dharma outlines moral duties and right and wrong ways to live.	15,000 	100% 	What Is Ethical?
 	What Is Moral? 	Where do moral values come from? Are certain acts or behaviors inherently "good"? Do the same rules apply to everyone, everywhere? 	40,000 	100% 	Dharma Ethics
 	Moral Skepticism	Moral skeptics declare that there's no such thing as absolute moral truths. Instead, concepts of right and wrong are different for every person; no one's moral code is "correct". 	2.00e7 	400% 	What Is Moral?
 	Utilitarianism 	 	30.00B 	50000% 	Moral Skepticism
 	Humanism 	 	15.00T 	10000% 	Moral Skepticism
 	Intuitive Ethics	 	10.00 Qa 	50000% 	Dharma
 	Code of Law 	 	500.00 Qa	5000% 	Humanism
 	Stoicism 	 	20.00 Oc 	1E+12% 	Hedonism
=== Political Philosophy Efficiency ===
Name 	Efficiency 	Description	Cost 	Requirements
Who Should Rule?	100% 	 	1.50M 	x1 Political Philosophy
Autocracy 	50% 	 	5.00M 	Who Shoud Rule?
What Is Power? 	100% 	 	50.00M 	x1 Political Philosophy
Divine Right 	200% 	 	500.00M 	Autocracy, What Is Power?
Machiavellianism	25000% 	 	70.00B 	Divine Right
Human Rights 	10000% 	 	70.00T 	Machiavellianism
Individualism 	800% 	 	1.00 Qa 	Autocracy
Right to Revolt 	15000% 	 	100.00 Qa	Human Rights
Collectivism 	5000% 	 	2.50 qi 	Individualism, Right to Revolt
Anarchism 	2500% 	 	100.00 qi	Collectivism
Thinking... 	1E+11% (100 000 million)	 	500.00 Oc	What's the Answer?
=== Epistemology Efficiency ===
Name 	Efficiency 	Description	Cost 	Requirements
What Do We Know? 	100% 	 	800.00M 	x1 Epistemology
Pramana 	100% 	 	2.00B 	What Do We Know?
How Do We Know? 	100% 	 	5.00B 	x1 Epistemology
Socratic Method 	1000% 	 	300.00B 	How Do We Know?
Rationalism 	200% 	 	6.00T 	Pramana
Empiricism 	300% 	 	40.00T 	Rationalism
Skepticism 	2.5E+10% (25 billion) 	 	20.00 Sx 	Socratic Method
What's the Answer?	1.5E+08% (150 million)	 	200.00 Oc	Transcendence
=== Metaphysics Efficiency ===
Name 	Efficiency	Description	Cost 	Requirements
How Did It Start?	200% 	 	100.00T 	x1 Metaphysics
Cosmology 	150% 	 	300.00T 	How Did It Start?
Why Am I Aware? 	150% 	 	2.00 Qa 	x1 Metaphysics
Identity 	100% 	 	4.00 Qa 	Why Am I Aware?
Ship of Theseus 	600% 	 	40.00 Qa 	Identity
Space & Time 	1500000% 	 	2.00 Sx 	Cosmology
Theology 	5000% 	 	100.00 Sx	Cosmology
Mind & Matter 	100% 	 	300.00 Sx	Ship of Theseus
Ontology 	1000% 	 	3.00 Sp 	Space & Time, Theology, Mind & Matter
Ascetism 	10000% 	 	300.00 Sp	What's the Good Life?
Theism 	1500% 	 	7.00 Oc 	What's the Point?
=== Spirit Efficiency ===
Name 	Efficiency	Description	Cost 	Requirements
What Is Spirit? 	100% 	 	15.00 qi 	x1 Spirit
Theory of Forms 	200% 	 	30.00 qi 	What Is Spirit?
What Is Humanity?	100% 	 	80.00 qi 	x1 Spirit
Sapience 	100% 	 	350.00 qi	What Is Humanity?
Soul 	100% 	 	1.00 Sx 	Theory of Forms, Sapience
State of Nature 	250% 	 	5.00 Sx 	Sapience
Nondualism 	200% 	 	10.00 Sx 	Soul
Fate & Free Will 	10000% 	 	700.00 Sx	Soul, State of Nature
Solipsism 	111% 	 	7.00 Sp 	Nondualism
Transcendence 	500000% 	 	80.00 Oc 	Stoicism, Existentialism
=== Meaning of Life Efficiency ===
Name 	Efficiency	Description	Cost 	Requirements
What's the Good Life?	1000% 	 	30.00 Sp 	x1 Meaning of Life
What's the Point? 	100% 	 	100.00 Sp	x1 Meaning of Life
Nihilism 	-0% 	 	700.00 Sp	What's the Point?
Hedonism 	300% 	 	1.00 Oc 	Ascetism
Absurdism 	100% 	 	3.00 Oc 	Nihilism
Existentialism 	400% 	 	50.00 Oc 	Absurdism, Theism
42 	42% 	 	2.50 No 	The Answer Is...
What's The Question? 	100% 	 	4.00 No 	42
==Tech Tree==
== Trivia ==
* In the description for the upgrade "42", Semblance refers to the powerful supercomputer in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy as "another" one, implying that Semblance is a supercomputer.
== Gallery ==
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