The combination of current cosmology, physical theories, ancient cosmogonies, theologies, and metaphysics poses three main questions: Why is there something rather than nothing? Why does being take many forms? What is the origin of everything? Many different answers have been given in various different fields to these questions. In theological, creationist metaphysics, the only answer is the existence of a creator who has given rise not only to everything, but also to the laws that govern existence. Non-theological metaphysics, instead, has engaged in the determination of some first...

This book formulates and explores a philosophical theory called Eventualism, which it defines as a metaphysical conception concerning the whole reality and every anything, simple or complex, which is verified or supposed to exist. It argues that anythings are not only those things belonging to the natural or physical world, but also those generated by the human mind, individual or collective, and by artificial tools, such as those of AI. The book begins by considering the notions of anything, effectiveness and eventuality, before examining different characters of the anything and, in...

The combination of current cosmology, physical theories, ancient cosmogonies, theologies, and metaphysics poses three main questions: Why is there something rather than nothing? Why does being take many forms? What is the origin of everything? Many different answers have been given in various different fields to these questions. In theological, creationist metaphysics, the only answer is the existence of a creator who has given rise not only to everything, but also to the laws that govern existence. Non-theological metaphysics, instead, has engaged in the determination of some first...