"Why not Nothing?" (Timothy O'Connor)

[Magical Realist]

Why not indeed! A question that gets to the red meat of metaphysics and what we even mean by Something and Nothing. In short: "If Nothing or infinite endless blank is possible, why is there Something at all?" Is Something bound to be? And can science answer this question by coming up with an absolutely true and necessary explanation for existence itself?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FMeVBEgeymg&t=492s

[Syne]

They dance so close to it. Nothing doesn't just require there also be the possibility for something. Nothing, itself, is that possibility.

[Magical Realist]

"The easiest way to show that there must be something rather than nothing is to try to define nothing. Nothing must have no properties: No size. No shape. No position. No mass-energy, forces, wave forms, or anything else you can think of. No time, no past, no present, no future. And finally, no existence. Therefore there must be something. And this is it."

Larry Curley, Sawtry, Huntingdon, UK

[Syne]

Something from what?

[Magical Realist]

There's no cause for Something. It always is and always will be. Because its opposite Nothing doesn't exist.

[Syne]

The only something defined as having no cause is God.
Everything else is an infinite regress that explicitly avoids an answer.

[Magical Realist]

The only something defined as having no cause is God.

There is no something defined as God. Any more than there is a Santa Clause.

[Syne]

Than you only have an infinite regress left... which in no answer at all.

[Magical Realist]

Than you only have an infinite regress left... which in no answer at all.

There is no cause for Somethingness. As I said, it just is and always has been.

[Syne]

Have fun with your thought-terminating cliche.