Don't dismiss nothing
Nothing makes intuitive sense.
When we ponder existence, it's easy enough to get around most of the issues. There is the classic question for the novice of what existed before time, or how time came into being. With careful thought, it is easy to see that such notions as "coming into being" are subject to time, hence the question is irrelevant. Put more simply, when we abstract ourselves from our mortal condition, it is evident that time is a property of existence, hence existence is not subject to it. Existence simply is.
Another way of looking at this is to imagine existence to be a multidimensional array of all possible states. Consider Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle - at any given instant there is a quantum probability, hence possibility, of any given thing in a finite (though nigh infinite) number of possibilities occurring. Schrödinger elaborated on this to propose parallel universes - at every point where the aforementioned occurs, the universe splits into a number of parallel universes, each in which one of the aforementioned possibilities occur.
In the case of science, it is only the nature of physics (the very laws of the universe) that limit these possibilities to the finite set that they are. Somewhat consequently, however, it is evident that it is this same set of possibilities which the universe entertains in every instant - the only thing that changes is the quantum probability of any given one occurring. It is a set like this (only on the scale of existence, not solely the universe) which I have referred to as the multidimensional array of all possible states.
Considering this array, one can see that we are like equations, lines or waves moving through it. Our perception of time is an artifact of our lack of perspective, consequential of our limitation within the array. Hence, what we consider to be time is simply the resolution of our 'equation'.
There are less trivial philosophical questions concerning existence, however. For example, why is there existence? I mean to say, we have established that there is this multidimensional array; but why?
To help answer this, we can begin by asking ourselves: What should there be? Logically, the answer is: nothing. There simply shouldn't be, without there being cause of being. This is why Nihilism is so fundamental.
I nonetheless leave you with a final question, one that I am still pondering. Why is it the fundamental nature of nothingness to be possessed of possibility? That is, if we accept that there is nothing, and that everything has manifested itself from the nothingness; and if we are able, in ourselves, to overcome and reconcile the question of why that which we experience is consequential of our limitation; then, still, we must attempt to understand why it is that the nothingness results in manifestation.
True Nihilism says: there is nothing, not even the possibility of there being. And yet our human experience, along with all of these concepts, not least the introspection of us - the nothingness - are. Why?
When we ponder existence, it's easy enough to get around most of the issues. There is the classic question for the novice of what existed before time, or how time came into being. With careful thought, it is easy to see that such notions as "coming into being" are subject to time, hence the question is irrelevant. Put more simply, when we abstract ourselves from our mortal condition, it is evident that time is a property of existence, hence existence is not subject to it. Existence simply is.
Another way of looking at this is to imagine existence to be a multidimensional array of all possible states. Consider Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle - at any given instant there is a quantum probability, hence possibility, of any given thing in a finite (though nigh infinite) number of possibilities occurring. Schrödinger elaborated on this to propose parallel universes - at every point where the aforementioned occurs, the universe splits into a number of parallel universes, each in which one of the aforementioned possibilities occur.
In the case of science, it is only the nature of physics (the very laws of the universe) that limit these possibilities to the finite set that they are. Somewhat consequently, however, it is evident that it is this same set of possibilities which the universe entertains in every instant - the only thing that changes is the quantum probability of any given one occurring. It is a set like this (only on the scale of existence, not solely the universe) which I have referred to as the multidimensional array of all possible states.
Considering this array, one can see that we are like equations, lines or waves moving through it. Our perception of time is an artifact of our lack of perspective, consequential of our limitation within the array. Hence, what we consider to be time is simply the resolution of our 'equation'.
There are less trivial philosophical questions concerning existence, however. For example, why is there existence? I mean to say, we have established that there is this multidimensional array; but why?
To help answer this, we can begin by asking ourselves: What should there be? Logically, the answer is: nothing. There simply shouldn't be, without there being cause of being. This is why Nihilism is so fundamental.
I nonetheless leave you with a final question, one that I am still pondering. Why is it the fundamental nature of nothingness to be possessed of possibility? That is, if we accept that there is nothing, and that everything has manifested itself from the nothingness; and if we are able, in ourselves, to overcome and reconcile the question of why that which we experience is consequential of our limitation; then, still, we must attempt to understand why it is that the nothingness results in manifestation.
True Nihilism says: there is nothing, not even the possibility of there being. And yet our human experience, along with all of these concepts, not least the introspection of us - the nothingness - are. Why?
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