DBT
Contributor
So if I believed the cookie was a made thing, I would think a child ate it?
The cookie has eternal life now? This is getting weird.The universe and the cookie are the same thing. I've never seen a cookie appear or disappear and I've never seen any part of the universe appear or disappear. The cookie is just like every other part of the universe, it's always been here, just like every part of you and me.If the universe is really like a cookie - epistemologically, not ontologically - then you should be entirely comfortable with the idea of cookies appearing without need for someone to make them, and disappearing without need for someone to have taken them. There is either a failure of a metaphor here, or a failure of a priori reasoning. Which do you prefer to admit to? I would choose the metaphor, if I were you.
Maybe you have a greater point. Or maybe you want to explain what you mean when you say "came to exist."
Does matter vanish from the Universe when the cookie is consumed?