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Its a nonsense question of the highest order. Each "answer" does one thing only; it kicks the can a little farther road the road. They are basically trying to extend the chain of causality. Extending it doesn't answer the question they're really looking for, which is: Why (in a religious or spiritual sense; a question science can't answer)?. This reminds me very much of the way consciousness is treated by lots of well meaning neuroscientists. Consciousness belongs to the organism in the same way time belongs to our universe; they are inseparable qualities of the whole. They don't reside anywhere.