On Tue, Mar 9, 2021 at 9:41 AM Lawrence Crowell < goldenfieldquaterni...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Nothingness is a paradoxical thing. Does nothingness exist? If so, then by > having existential properties it is not pure nothingness. If nothingness > does not exist then there must exist something. In a sense God is the > antithesis of nothingness and in a sense shares the same paradoxical issue. There is a strange and paradoxical sort of identity between *nothing* and *everything*, particularly as it relates to information theory. Insofar as the total set of all possibilities has zero information content. This is the main subject of Russell Standish's book: Theory of Nothing: https://www.hpcoders.com.au/nothing.html Jason > > LC > > On Monday, March 8, 2021 at 11:34:51 PM UTC-6 Jason wrote: > >> I wrote up my thoughts on the question of "Why does anything exist?" >> >> https://alwaysasking.com/why-does-anything-exist/ >> >> I thought members of the list might appreciate some of the references >> included in it. My thinking on this question has of course been greatly >> expanded and influenced through my interactions with many of you over the >> past decade. >> >> I welcome any feedback, thoughts, corrections, or questions regarding >> anything written. >> >> Sincerely, >> >> Jason >> > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Everything List" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/b2812fb2-d496-4630-b534-f49c27569b9cn%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/b2812fb2-d496-4630-b534-f49c27569b9cn%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/CA%2BBCJUhUoD33_qUQ4xF276e184xCGuEMifAnY%2B-498ktGSVxHg%40mail.gmail.com.
