This place and how it works are indeed way outside the scope of anything anyone knows. Even with people from multiple worlds having been pulled here, no one can really explain how any of it happened. Unfortunately, one of things I've had to accept since coming here is that some answers are basically unattainable. If they could be found, there's plenty of people here - some of them having been here for a long time, who are exceptionally powerful, or both - who would have found them by now.
The working theory is a godlike being may be responsible for it all. And, if it is, then frankly that's all the answer anyone can really have. A god, by definition, doesn't have to conform to rules or anything understandable by mortals. They can just make something happen because they want it to, no matter how impossible it should be. Omnipotence - which is basically a requirement of godhood - means that there are no limits. There doesn't have to be a 'how', only a 'why'. And the 'why' can be nothing more than one big celestial "BECAUSE I SAY SO".
So I could torture myself searching for answers that may not even exist, or I could accept that it might be better to just get on with living my life. I choose the latter.
For much the same reasons, I don't bother questioning whether my own perceptions are real or not. What's the point? I can only ask the questions of whether everything I experience might be fake with a mind that - if it is all fake - is being tricked. I can only ask the question "am I actually me?" using whatever 'me' there is for me to think with. If I'm not me, if everything I perceive is fake, there's no way for me to confirm those things - and if I am me, and it's all real, then all I'd be doing is torturing myself with questions I can't possibly answer. I can't prove those questions true or false. So why ask them? Philosophy, self-analysis, theorizing, navel-gazing, questioning reality and the very sense of the self...it's all well and good up until you paralyze yourself with it.
I get the impression you and Emet-Selch would get along like a house on fire, though. Just as an aside.
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The working theory is a godlike being may be responsible for it all. And, if it is, then frankly that's all the answer anyone can really have. A god, by definition, doesn't have to conform to rules or anything understandable by mortals. They can just make something happen because they want it to, no matter how impossible it should be. Omnipotence - which is basically a requirement of godhood - means that there are no limits. There doesn't have to be a 'how', only a 'why'. And the 'why' can be nothing more than one big celestial "BECAUSE I SAY SO".
So I could torture myself searching for answers that may not even exist, or I could accept that it might be better to just get on with living my life. I choose the latter.
For much the same reasons, I don't bother questioning whether my own perceptions are real or not. What's the point? I can only ask the questions of whether everything I experience might be fake with a mind that - if it is all fake - is being tricked. I can only ask the question "am I actually me?" using whatever 'me' there is for me to think with. If I'm not me, if everything I perceive is fake, there's no way for me to confirm those things - and if I am me, and it's all real, then all I'd be doing is torturing myself with questions I can't possibly answer. I can't prove those questions true or false. So why ask them? Philosophy, self-analysis, theorizing, navel-gazing, questioning reality and the very sense of the self...it's all well and good up until you paralyze yourself with it.
I get the impression you and Emet-Selch would get along like a house on fire, though. Just as an aside.