# The formal sciences The formal sciences fail to answer the following obvious questions: - Given the improbability of our existence, is it strictly random? - How did consciousness come into existence? What benefit does it give? - What is the survival benefit of existential questions? - Can we ever make a computer into a form of life? - Why does the Riemann hypothesis (the pattern for prime numbers) exist? - What are the odds of beating a game of Solitaire?