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Why is there something rather than nothing? (otiose or foolish inquiries)

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Syne Offline
Consciousness only corrupts the notion of nothingness if consciousness is, itself, some thing. We have no way to know if matter exists completely independent of our senses. We don't even have a way to verify that something exists at all, except by the possible illusion of banging illusory stuff against more illusory stuff. If the desk you bang your hand on to justify "solid reality" is just as dependent upon consciousness as the hand, it demonstrates nothing, in and of itself.

What's probably more true is that nothing and everything are a continuum. One bleeding into the other, from different perspectives, and even simultaneously. Neither can "be" without the other.
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Seattle Offline
If you think you have just banged your hand on the desk and I watched you and I concluded the same thing... it's probably real.
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Zinjanthropos Offline
What kind of boundary would exist between something and nothing if there is such a thing? Is the quantum world a good place to start looking for one? I guess it’s kind of like where or what is the universe expanding into.
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Syne Offline
If you bang an illusion against an illusion, you haven't proven anything but illusion. Shared illusions would be no less illusory.
Sometimes there is no boundary. Nothing can seem like something and vice versa, from different perspectives.
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Zinjanthropos Offline
(Oct 23, 2022 06:03 PM)Syne Wrote: If you bang an illusion against an illusion, you haven't proven anything but illusion. Shared illusions would be no less illusory.
Sometimes there is no boundary. Nothing can seem like something and vice versa, from different perspectives.

Not arguing with you. Don’t know the date of this article but not a long read..

http://www.esalq.usp.br/lepse/imgs/conte...t-Real.pdf
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