[extropy-chat] Big Bang & "the origin of the Universe"

[ben]

Jeff Medina wrote:

> Now suppose there is indeed no information about whether Something can
> come into existence from Nothing. (There is indeed no such
> information.
...
> *so long as those states EXIST or EXISTED* in a way conceptually
> distinguishable from Nothingness.]

Nothingness.

Interesting, er, concept.

What is it?

Where is it?

etc.

The more i think about it, the more i think there can't be any such
'thing'. It's a bit like comtemplating the subjective experience of not
existing.

I suppose that's one way of saying that Nothing *always* gives rise to
Something . As soon as the Something exists, the Nothing not only ceases
to 'exist', but never did, because time is created, too.

My brain hurts.

But it's squeezing out the concept that 'Nothingness' is meaningless.

ben