Melthadora

Woah, Joigus! Thank you for the info. The visual aid looks amazing, too. How can I look up the math behind it? I'd love to dive into some hard science, and not only play around with logic and philosophy (I hope that my level is enough to understand the equations!) So, judging from the above, nothingness is a system of somethings that keep cancelling each other out. So, even if it's nothingness for all technical purposes, it still isn't absolute absence of everything. So, the question still stands: Why? I asked philosopherai.com - it's a great ai you can ask about anything. It suggested that, if absolutely nothing existed, the concept of reality wouldn't exist either, and so my statement is false (yep, the ai is that good!). But if the nature of reality itself goes beyond mere concepts, the ai's answer is the one that doesn't stand. I wonder which of both is it. Are there any theories about why that sea fell downhill? And now I wonder about why entropy exists in the first place. And why it's expanding. Maybe the universe is filled with small nothings that keep exploding. (I'm getting random here, I know). This is an interesting addition to joigus' post. I like your simile about the water. You could say that what I actually wonder about is how the laws of universe came into existence, indeed. I need to look up that book. Thanks!

I had this thought which bugs me: "If absolutely nothing existed, reality wouldn't exist either. Therefore, absolute nothingness cannot be real. And thus, something has to exist." Thoughts? Can it stand as a logical statement? Why do you think there might be something instead of nothing?