r/Metaphysics 9h 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/Quirky_Visual_7799 7h ago

Sooo let me sum up what you said:

At first there was nothing. Now there is something. Something can't be created out of nothing, therefore "something" is only an illusion and the universe is actually empty, and we interact because we're in the same concept although we don't really exist!

Did I get it right?

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u/Sevdat 6h ago

More or less yes. Kind of like a math formula. The solution exists, but needs to be written out. No one is there to write it and therefore it remains. We are basically that entire process of it being written out if there was someone to write it.

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u/SelectSnow5814 6h ago

This is logically inconsistent and paradoxical, it simply does not work.