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Isn’t, “Premise 1: Everything has to come from something.”, impossible?

Oh no! You hacked the system! We don’t exist.

These two compliment each other nicely. The premise is one that people have used for centuries, but it’s flawed. We use it because we came into existence in a cause and effect world. Of course we evolved to understand it that way. It took us billions of years to figure out that there are even other galaxies, and we are just figuring out that the universe, the actual universe, is not time bound, things happen without a cause, at least not in the way we understand the word. We don’t have words for it and we can’t imagine it, it’s not intuitive. Physical spacetime universes can pop in and out of existence. Some of them have just the right mix of physical laws that they hang around long enough to create elements and creatures with memories and emergent properties of their own.