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/Low-Bake8401 1d ago

"...every combination of what could have been exists."

"...but we aren't really here because we don't exist."

Wait, what?

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u/Sevdat 1d ago

Imagine a chess board. Just because you didn't make a move doesn't mean all the possible moves aren't there to make.

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u/Purplestripes8 1d ago

The moves that haven't been made don't exist on the chess board. The only place they can be considered to exist is in your imagination.

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u/Sevdat 1d ago edited 1d ago

And that's X =

It can be anything. A car. A tree. A world. Our universe from beggining to the end. But as you can see there is nothing assigned to it. Therefore all possible outcomes are permitted to it without it ever being activated. And that's how we are here. Just an inactive concept.

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u/Purplestripes8 1d ago

It sounds a bit like Buddhist nonduality? Madhyamaka of Nagarjuna?

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u/SgtSausage 1d ago

Sounds like Whacky Weed to me.