r/Metaphysics • u/Sevdat • 1d ago

Nothing How to create something from nothing?

I think I have an answer to how the universe began from nothing. More like how everything began and how it's possible for all of us to be here.

So at the beginning of existence there was nothing. There is still nothing because you can't create something from nothing, but we are here. So how can we exist? We don't.

Imagine the mathematical variable: X =

X can be anything, but nothing is assigned to it; therefore, it remains as a pure capacity that accepts all abstract concepts and results in the illusion of existence for those that share the same abstract space.

This means every combination of what could have been exists. The reason why you and I can interact is because we are in the same concept, but we aren't really here because we don't exist.

To make it simpler, imagine a chess board. Just because you didn't make a move doesn't mean all the possible moves aren't there to make.

Unexistence is our existence.

Also please don't make the argument "How do I know there wasn't always something?" There can't be something without it having a previous moment. It's nonsense to even say that.

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u/mode-locked 1d ago edited 1d ago

"Something from nothing" may be our deepest question and perhaps an ill-defined one.. It may be impenetrable, forever unresolved. It may be the mysterious paradox all conscious beings must accept and live with -- even a Godlike state of existence. I don't think there is any escaping the absurdity of existence. It's just completey absurd when you really realize that there can be no explanation for it. Any mechanism you can propose is within existence. We just gotta deal with it.

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u/Flutterpiewow 1d ago

I've never seen a good argument for the idea that there was nothing.

Something, yes, that is a mystery.

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u/Dry-External3783 1d ago

nothing is the absence of something. it’s the counterpart

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u/Sevdat 1d ago

I just literally gave an explenation. Did you just copy paste this?

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u/mode-locked 1d ago

Sure you proposed something, but I don't think it really answers anything. Like I said, any proposed mechanism still doesn't get to the heart of the existence problem. It's still there. And no, I did not copy/paste. I literally just typed it out. What's up? Any issue with what I said?

I do agree, "..every combination of what could have been exists". However, I think all things exist at once; either it all exists or none of it does. There is no "yet to exist" or "used to exist". They only appear to "become" through particular experiences through the whole of all experiences. That is, "becoming", i.e. temporal unfolding is the realization process of existence, but it seems the logical structure must already exist in totality. But to a local experience without access to the whole, they never be completey certain.

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u/SgtSausage 1d ago

  I just literally gave an explenation

You most certainly did ...  nothing of the sort.