2007-03-16 07:37:13 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
Who says that there is something, perhaps it would be better described as a state of no-nothingness that we perceive as something. This is because we assume we are part of it and the only thing we can say about ourselves for sure is that we are, after all all the rest could be illusion. It would be more helpfully to see ourselves as no nothingness not no-perceiving itself.
If we get really serious then we must drop the we and talk about a universal I.
Imagine that the universe at the moment of creation had no dimensions but instead of expanding as we conventionally perceive it to do its contents started shrinking a witness such as us within the universe would believe it to was expanding. They would also have to deal with the seeming paradox that it has no exterior dimensions.
What is mass? it is just huge spaces with a multitude of tiny subatomic particles held in a complex interrelation, and these are really just composed of energy. What is energy? well you need it to move mass. Can't you see the whole illusion is paper thin, something can't exist nor can nothing. We are in a paradox that we can call no-nothingness for want of a better word.
2007-03-16 09:47:55 · answer #1 · answered by Clem 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The individual finds "something" through the senses. I see, hear, smell (gods help me) and feel my mongrel terrier. I guess I could taste her too, but no thanks.
Any one of these sense tells me there is "something" rather than nothing. Still, "something" is subjective. Ghost hunters, ESP"ers", etc. feel there is something where I find nothing but drafts and the settling of old buildings. Too each his own.
2007-03-16 14:49:55 · answer #2 · answered by Crash Jones 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Thats been bugging me too. Is our something nothing elsewhere in other dimensions? What constitutes something? Conciousness? I think our brains are too limited to figure that one out here on earth because we do not have the full picture.
2007-03-17 19:26:33 · answer #3 · answered by lemonadesparklecat 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Actually there's everything, and nothing. Everything comes from nothing, but it could be said that they are both the same thing.
2007-03-16 18:47:58 · answer #4 · answered by Todd W 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Actually, the "something" you assume is impermenent and is really nothing. What was your face before you were born?
2007-03-16 15:18:18 · answer #5 · answered by guy o 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because nothing is the absence of something
2007-03-16 14:46:06 · answer #6 · answered by jokimben_el 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Because we want it that way. Something comes into our life b/c we call it forward. We are all huge creation machines.
2007-03-16 14:41:43 · answer #7 · answered by ♣Hey jude♣ 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Because something is this...everything.Nothing is the opposite,which would be a void.
2007-03-16 14:59:49 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Becaue we are something, aren't we!0!
2007-03-17 01:07:22 · answer #9 · answered by Alex 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Depends on what plane you're talking about.
2007-03-16 17:41:54 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋