On Wed, Mar 10, 2021 at 6:00 AM Jason Resch <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 9, 2021 at 9:41 AM Lawrence Crowell < > [email protected]> 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. > A random message string can contain zero information, but still exist -- written on a piece of paper, for example. This idea that zero information equates to 'nothing' is just an elementary confusion of categories. This is the main subject of Russell Standish's book: Theory of Nothing: > https://www.hpcoders.com.au/nothing.html > That is why Russell got so many things wrong in this book. Bruce -- 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 [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/CAFxXSLTXSHt%3DASkdBiA%2Bh_-4d3FCAHMX7puXWq9_1tG%3DnjbXSg%40mail.gmail.com.
