Seconding this recommendation. The questions you are starting to ask are ones which have been considered here, and we mostly feel we have sound answers to them (or dissolutions of the questions). Chapters likely to be relevant to your current thoughts:
Seconding this recommendation. The questions you are starting to ask are ones which have been considered here, and we mostly feel we have sound answers to them (or dissolutions of the questions). Chapters likely to be relevant to your current thoughts:
N — A Human’s Guide to Words
O — Lawful Truth
P — Reductionism 101
R — Physicalism 201