thought experiment

I think this whole blog thing is gonna be like one big stream of consciousness like thought experiement. In which I may latch onto a few ideas (such as string/m-theory) to see if they could take us anywhere new in the quest for answers to those big questions (why am I here? What created the universe? etc) aswell as other questions science avoids answering (what is consciousness?) by saying that it is either simply a by-product of the brain or it is an illusion. Neither of these explanations are very satisfactory to me at all.