In the first part of "Building your own philosophy," we discussed the why and what, but we'll discuss the how in the following few parts. In this episode, we'll talk about Ontology, or the philosophical study of the nature of existence. We'll ask ourselves how we view how things exist in the cosmos and how we fit into it. We start with ontology because it has cascading consequences on how we perceive the free-will vs. determinism, objectivity vs. subjectivity, and universality vs. particularity; ultimately, how we perceive things to exist helps us to untangle the messy narrative of our experience in this world.