From: meekerdb <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Sent: Monday, January 5, 2015 4:34 PM
Subject: Re: Why is there something rather than nothing? From quantum theory
to dialectics?
On 1/5/2015 3:50 PM, LizR wrote:
Eternal inflation seems to assume there is something because "there has always
been something". However if so, it sidesteps the underlying issue - why is
there this (eternal) something? The question itself - and any attempted answer
- can't be answered causally.
"Sidesteps"? or shows it's an invented issue. If there were nothing would the
issue be why isn't there something? Why should nothing be unquestionably
accepted as the default that needs no explanation?
Nice question. No easy answer jumps out as being the obvious answer either. Why
the human mind seems to come up with this assumption over and over again across
various cultures and periods of history. Why do you think humans seem to accept
this by and large as the default base state of everything. Could it be an
artifact of the way our minds work? The idea of nothing as the default base
state of the universe -- before God (or Nature) created everything - seems
quite widespread.-Chris
Brent
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