I. No-Matter-What

I. Two questions define the limits of our reflection. First, what is everything composed of? Second, what do all things compose?

The first question concerns the nature, identity, or mere definition of what concerns principles, what is primary, primitive, or elementary, or the irreducible component of everything that is. If a wall is made of bricks, an organism of cells, a sentence of words, a word of letters, an atom's nucleus of particles bound by forces, then what whole are they made of? Of matter, substances, heterogeneous multiplicities, the structures of our understanding, our cognition, our language, a god's will, mind, or appearances without reality?

2. The second question aims not to identify the ingredient or fundamental ingredients of the world, but rather to understand the state of the composite of everything that may always act as a component. If one drafts a list of all existent, possible, imaginable, conceivable, apparent, past, present, concrete, and abstract things, what form can account for the totality of everything that is? Is it a physical universe, a space-time continuum, multiple dimensions, multiverses, possible worlds, the course of history, the course of evolution, the limits of my culture, my social perspective, the inherited structures of my capacities for reasoning, an infinity, a Klein bottle, a transcendent, unthinkable, inexpressible form that is inaccessible to representation, the name of God, the twists and turns of my brain, ecstasy, or a poor pile of very small things?