It would be impossible for us as human beings within a universe with certain dimensions and forms, to even pose the question, "Why is there something rather than nothing?" if, indeed, there could be nothing.
Wednesday, July 2, 2014
Reply to philosophers' question
It is impossible for us as human beings to even pose the question, "Why is there something rather than nothing?" much less write a whole essay or book around that.
Why? The answer is so simple, I wonder why others can't see it, or if they can imagine it, why they can't agree with it. We don't have the mental capacity, the neural circuitry to conceive of nothing. We might, with our limited knowledge, imagine nothing to be a huge, empty vacuum, but even that is something. We have no means to imagine what nothing would be! And if nothing could be, it would still be something, which is logically impossible. That nothing would be a space in which nothing exists, and that space -- would it be somehow contained? -- would still be something.
THERE COULD NOT POSSIBLY BE NOTHING BECAUSE THERE'S ALWAYS AND HAS ALWAYS BEEN SOMETHING! (Roseann Rosanna Danna kept telling us this.) Why is there not nothing? We are talking of impossibilities. It goes against all of natural law, all that we have obtained through research and all that we simply observe. Even a baby knows that there is something rather than nothing. To the baby, the Something Other than him/herSelf is Mother. He knows that immediately, upon taking his first breath. THE BABY KNOWS THAT HE CAME FROM THE MOTHER -- NOT FROM NOTHING! HE COMES INTO THE WORLD SEEKING THAT ATTACHMENT OF SOMETHING! The human (thinking) condition ("I think, therefore I am," homo sapiens, thinking man) is to be something. This is reality as we know it! And after all, it is we who are posing the question, isn't it?
The possibility of nothing is inconceivable by our limited capacities. Therefore how could there be nothing? To quote Stuart Wilde (and certainly others have said it), "It is what it is."
Why? The answer is so simple, I wonder why others can't see it, or if they can imagine it, why they can't agree with it. We don't have the mental capacity, the neural circuitry to conceive of nothing. We might, with our limited knowledge, imagine nothing to be a huge, empty vacuum, but even that is something. We have no means to imagine what nothing would be! And if nothing could be, it would still be something, which is logically impossible. That nothing would be a space in which nothing exists, and that space -- would it be somehow contained? -- would still be something.
THERE COULD NOT POSSIBLY BE NOTHING BECAUSE THERE'S ALWAYS AND HAS ALWAYS BEEN SOMETHING! (Roseann Rosanna Danna kept telling us this.) Why is there not nothing? We are talking of impossibilities. It goes against all of natural law, all that we have obtained through research and all that we simply observe. Even a baby knows that there is something rather than nothing. To the baby, the Something Other than him/herSelf is Mother. He knows that immediately, upon taking his first breath. THE BABY KNOWS THAT HE CAME FROM THE MOTHER -- NOT FROM NOTHING! HE COMES INTO THE WORLD SEEKING THAT ATTACHMENT OF SOMETHING! The human (thinking) condition ("I think, therefore I am," homo sapiens, thinking man) is to be something. This is reality as we know it! And after all, it is we who are posing the question, isn't it?
The possibility of nothing is inconceivable by our limited capacities. Therefore how could there be nothing? To quote Stuart Wilde (and certainly others have said it), "It is what it is."
Saturday, November 10, 2012
Questions!
1. If two people are both nobodies and they get together, could they produce a somebody?
2. If two people with half a brain get together, will they constitute a whole brain?
Upon reflection today, 8/29/16, I think the answer to both questions is probably "no."
2. If two people with half a brain get together, will they constitute a whole brain?
Upon reflection today, 8/29/16, I think the answer to both questions is probably "no."
Friday, November 9, 2012
Quitting Smoking? or not!
Noted that I did try to quit in July 2011 due to a bad bronchitis. Same thing happened this year, just about a week ago. It didn't last, though.
Well, it's a great day for America Again!
Craig Ferguson, my friend, it really is a great day for America! Just as I predicted, Obama won big-time!
We're getting over the devastating weather here in NY. Some people had a really bad time of it. Someone said it was good we had the storm, because it made Mike Bloomberg change his mind and endorse Obama just before the election, because he felt that O. was better prepared to face the problems of ecological changes going on than that miserable M. R. !!!!! But the storm was definitely not good for a lot of people!!!!!
We're getting over the devastating weather here in NY. Some people had a really bad time of it. Someone said it was good we had the storm, because it made Mike Bloomberg change his mind and endorse Obama just before the election, because he felt that O. was better prepared to face the problems of ecological changes going on than that miserable M. R. !!!!! But the storm was definitely not good for a lot of people!!!!!
Tuesday, June 19, 2012
It's a Good Day for America
eHello to whomever is reading this today. I have a friend here with me today, and she asked to see my blog,
her name is Martyla, so here I am again almost a year later writing nothing particular on this blog. The computer placed a red wavy line under Martyla's name, somebody should tell the computer it's a fine name.
I have been diagnosed with Epstein-Barr virus, which makes me extremely tired at times, but after a few days it goes away. This last week was very rough. Two weeks actually. It came and went twice. Lasted 3 days each time. I revived with some electrolytes brought to me by a friend and some Jamaican roots brought to me by another friend. I am well and happy today, and it's a great day for America!
her name is Martyla, so here I am again almost a year later writing nothing particular on this blog. The computer placed a red wavy line under Martyla's name, somebody should tell the computer it's a fine name.
I have been diagnosed with Epstein-Barr virus, which makes me extremely tired at times, but after a few days it goes away. This last week was very rough. Two weeks actually. It came and went twice. Lasted 3 days each time. I revived with some electrolytes brought to me by a friend and some Jamaican roots brought to me by another friend. I am well and happy today, and it's a great day for America!
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