Peter,
Hi. I've read parts of a few of your blog posts and found them very
interesting and highly recommend them to others.
To build on this thread of "Why is there something rather than
nothing?", I'd like to throw out some related ideas. I used to post here
more often with this, but my view is that the situation we've always
considered to be "nothing" (e.g. no space/volume, time, matter, energy,
abstract concepts, laws of math/physics, no information, and no minds to
think about this "lack of all") isn't really the lack of all existent
entities. I try to show that that situation meets a definition of what it
means to be an existent entity.
Briefly, I propose that a thing exists if it is a grouping or
relationship present defining what is contained within. This
grouping/relationship is equivalent to a surface, edge or boundary defining
what is contained within and giving "substance" and existence to the thing.
Then, what we've traditionally thought of as “the absolute lack-of-all”
(no energy, matter, volume, space, time, thoughts, concepts, mathematical
truths, etc.; and no minds to think about this “absolute lack-of-all”), and
not our mind's conception of “the absolute lack-of-all”, is one and the
same as the entirety, or whole amount, of all that is present. That's it;
that's everything; there's nothing else; it is everything that is present.
It is the all. An entirety or whole amount is a grouping defining what is
contained within and is therefore a surface, an edge and an existent
entity. In other words, because the absolute lack-of-all is the entirety of
all that is present, it functions as both what is contained within and the
grouping defining what is contained within. It defines itself and is,
therefore, the beginning point in the chain of being able to define
existent entities in terms of other existent entities. The grouping/edge of
the absolute lack-of-all is not some separate thing; it is just the
"entirety", "the all" relationship, inherent in this absolute lack-of-all,
that defines what is contained within.
Anyways, if you're interested, there's more detail at my websites at:
sites.google.com/site/whydoesanythingexist
sites.google.com/site/ralphthewebsite
(click on 3rd link)
Thank you!
On Wednesday, October 22, 2014 4:33:50 AM UTC-4, Peter Sas wrote:
Hi guys,
Here is a blog piece I wrote about nothing as the ultimate source of being:
http://critique-of-pure-interest.blogspot.nl/2014/09/why-is-there-something-rather-than.html
On Wednesday, October 22, 2014 4:33:50 AM UTC-4, Peter Sas wrote:
>
> Hi guys,
>
> Here is a blog piece I wrote about nothing as the ultimate source of being:
>
>
> http://critique-of-pure-interest.blogspot.nl/2014/09/why-is-there-something-rather-than.html
>
>
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