Re: Why does the universe go to all the bother of existing?

On 04/09/2025 07:21 AM, Richmond wrote:

What does 'exist' mean? Why suppose that it was ever possible for
nothing to exist?
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Well it can follow from consideration or contemplation/deliberation
itself: on the universal, vis-a-vis the void, that there are examples
since antiquity like 'nature abhors a vacuum', about creation and
destruction vis-a-vis conservation, that considering "nothing" is
the same as considering "everything".
It's sort of like when a given thing, is, everything that it is not.
Then, this gets into things like why there's a principle of inversion
instead of a principle of (non-)contradiction, that's sort of been
a usual idea since antiquity, the principle of non-contradiction,
yet instead, a principle of inversion can see that arrive and
for reason and rationality and according to nature and reality.
So, really it's a question to answer for yourself, where though
the usual "fundamental question of metaphysics" is "why is there
something rather than nothing", then there's quite a bit of the
canon and dogma and doctrine about it, to make inter-subjective
accounts, vis-a-vis, usual personal individual ponderings.
Anyways there's an idea that the universe exists simply because
mathematics exists and a continuum exists and it tents up three
space dimensions naturally and time the other way out of that
one continuum, then the contents arrive as after chirality is
sort of the usual idea.
Or, you know, "the only constant is change".