[extropy-chat] HISTORY: Solved & Unsolved Riddles

[Mike Lorrey]

An excellent answer, Coyote. There is no real absolute zero, there is
no true vacuum, there is no nothingness. Zero is a modern fiction to
deal with double entry book-keeping and avoiding the tax man. Zero and
God are equally fictitious. 

--- "R.Coyote" <etheric at comcast.net> wrote:
> Ok Ill try, I'm sure the resident physicists will butcher this, I
> apologize
> in advance
> 
> Why is there something instead of nothing,  is because in the natural
> world,
> the entire idea of nothing as such  is illusory, there are  only
> something(s), it is like asking what is ten miles north of the north
> pole.
> 
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Eliezer S. Yudkowsky" <sentience at pobox.com>
> To: "Damien Broderick" <thespike at earthlink.net>; "ExI chat list"
> <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org>
> Sent: Saturday, November 08, 2003 5:49 PM
> Subject: Re: [extropy-chat] HISTORY: Solved & Unsolved Riddles
> 
> 
> > > Why is there something instead of nothing?
> >
> > "I don't know" is an acceptable answer here.
> >
> > I can add things like... "but I strongly suspect it's a wrong
> question,
> > because I run into paradoxes when I try to analyze it" or "Are you
> sure
> > there *is* something instead of nothing?" or "Maybe if I fully
> answer 'Why
> > do people think there is something instead of nothing?' the
> question will
> > go away."
> >
> > Nonetheless, "I don't know" is an acceptable answer, and it remains
> my
> > answer for the moment.
> >
> > --
> > Eliezer S. Yudkowsky                          http://singinst.org/
> > Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence
> >
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