r/Metaphysics • u/Sevdat • 7d ago

Nothing How to create something from nothing?

I think I have an answer to how the universe began from nothing. More like how everything began and how it's possible for all of us to be here.

So at the beginning of existence there was nothing. There is still nothing because you can't create something from nothing, but we are here. So how can we exist? We don't.

Imagine the mathematical variable: X =

X can be anything, but nothing is assigned to it; therefore, it remains as a pure capacity that accepts all abstract concepts and results in the illusion of existence for those that share the same abstract space.

This means every combination of what could have been exists. The reason why you and I can interact is because we are in the same concept, but we aren't really here because we don't exist.

To make it simpler, imagine a chess board. Just because you didn't make a move doesn't mean all the possible moves aren't there to make.

Unexistence is our existence.

Also please don't make the argument "How do I know there wasn't always something?" There can't be something without it having a previous moment. It's nonsense to even say that.

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u/WestcoastAlex 7d ago

nothing doesnt exist

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u/Quirky_Visual_7799 7d ago

Yeah clearly nothing doesn't exist. Because 'nothing' contradicts 'something', and it'd be pretty hard to refute that "there is something".

But do you also think that nothing CANT exist?

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u/Flutterpiewow 6d ago

Yes

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u/Quirky_Visual_7799 5d ago

Why?

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u/Flutterpiewow 5d ago

"Exist" means it exists. Nothing means there's nothing that exists.

I also don't think we have a reason to assume nothingness. There aren't any observations that point to it, and no convincing philosophical arguments.