[extropy-chat] Nothingness and that Infinite Chain of Causesthingy.

[scerir]

Damien B. wrote:
> To speak of instability [of nothingness] is to posit 
> change over time, and yet the postulate of nothingness 
> forbids time and change.

One can speculate about some initial state
completely symmetrical (and, I guess, with
some minimal entropy). Dunno if this state
can be defined as 'nothingness' or, rather, 
as 'everythingness'. Dunno if there is a way 
to postulate differences between the meanings
of the two terms (I hope so). But if the initial 
state is a state of 'everythingness', it is less 
difficult to speculate about its corruption 
(breaking symmetry) in (its proper) time. 
In this case, we should say that 'everythingness' 
is unstable.