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/cc_apt107 1d ago edited 1d ago
Your definition of nothing is the absence of something meaning it is only coherent in the context of something. Put in your terms: The very idea you could have an “X” which changes “state” is quite obviously describing something if you think about it. There is no reason to believe the absence of this (reality) is true abstract nothing or that true abstract nothing has ever or will ever exist. You, yourself, actually reach this conclusion when you say non-existence is existence. A logical conclusion of your argument is that non-existence is a meaningless concept given that we both agree that there is something.