Do any absolutes exist? I believe this is an important question. For even if we cannot determine any absolutes save one, this would still logically prove the existence of a higher 'sentience'. What do I mean? I intend to explain that.

First, let us start with an example of an absolute. Here is an absolute - you will die. Of that I can be absolutely certain. Alternatively, from that point, since you will die, we know that you must now live - meaning that we are also absolutely sure that you exist. There is no denying it with any sort of circumstance – at this very moment we are absolutely sure you exist. Let’s have one more example - the impossibility of something being itself and not itself. It is abstract, but it essentially means is that A cannot be both A and not A. In a more concrete sense, we can say the same thing by saying that contradictions cannot exist in nature. That statement is absolutely true.

We see then, that at least some absolutes do in fact exist. We might not be able to comprehend or discover them all, but we know that they do exist. What significance does this hold if any?

Absolutes, by definition are not relative to anything; they merely exist in their own right. Thus, in the absence of any outside environment or interaction they would remain true. What I mean is this; if the human race were gone and extinguished, and no other sentient mind was present to comprehend these truths, the truths would still exist. They might be useless because there no minds to comprehend them - but they would still exist, waiting for the next ready mind willing to encompass them. Thus, if no sentient minds are present, A still cannot be both A and not A. If you were the only person in existence and there were no external minds to comprehend or interact with you, it would not change the fact that you would still exist. The quality of that existence is another matter.

We see then that absolutes are by logical extension of the definition, objective. What does objective mean? Let us define it this way; something that is objective is something that retains its attributes (it remains the same) outside the human mind. Let's consider one of our former examples, existence. Given, the concept of existence is defined by the human mind and language and would not then be objective. What I mean is, though the concept of existence is a human concept (because we are human), you existing, and the fact that you existed is a quality that you possess/possessed (if you died). Despite whether or not there are any sentient minds there to comprehend it, you still retain/retained that quality. I am not talking about our conception of the quality, I'm talking about the quality itself. (In this mode of thinking, if I refer to a rock, I refer not to my concept of the rock, but the rock itself - though this analogy only extends to a certain point because we have not resolved that the rock is absolute). And the quality can exist on its own because it is able to by definition.

Now that we have determined that at minimum, some (at least the two mentioned) absolutes do exist (and there might be many more). Now that we have defined them, there remains the problem of their origin. Where did they come from or what were they produced by? Well, let's think first of a quality of absolutes. I think it would be a safe to say that only a sentient mind could be aware of absolutes. A tree is not aware of absolutes. A dog is not consciously aware it exists – it merely does. Thus, one quality of absolutes is that only a sentient mind is able to be aware of them. This is not hard to stomach and sits well with the common sense. But if sentient minds are the only things capable of comprehending absolutes, that leaves us with the problem of the definition of sentience. However, that is another topic entirely. Let us assume that we all know what we are talking about when we refer to sentience. Now if this quality is true, that only sentient minds can be aware of absolutes, then the origin of absolutes must be traced back to an original sentient mind. In other words, if absolutes require sentient minds to be understood, it must have been produced by a sentient mind.