Why Is There Something

[nailit]

rather than nothing?
Why is there the universe, life, consciousness etc?
Can we concieve nothingness anyway?
And why is there not a philosophy catagory on AB anyway?

[DaisyNonna]

If you are conceiving nothing then conversely you are conceiving something as there is nothing to conceive.

[Buenchico]

There's probably vastly more 'nothingness' than 'being' but, since we're not part of it, we can't perceive it - and if we were part of it, then it wouldn't be nothingness anyway.

[nailit]

oh dear, I knew I shouldnt have asked....got a headache already.

[DaisyNonna]

Sorry nailit.
There was nothing further from my thoughts than giving you a headache.
Friends?

[jim360]

As far as I can tell the current best answer is "why not?"

[nailit]

LOL Daisy, friends yeah. :-)

[mibn2cweus]

Nothing is impossible. For anything to be possible there must first be something.

Existence is axiomatic. Existence is implied and any and every though or action.

The question "Why?" arises as a consequence of reason, a question that can only be answered in relation to an understanding of "How?"

The capacity to reason arises from an advanced level of consciousness where we begin to be aware of relationships between things and how they interact.

Apart from reason, there can be no reason for anything to exist. Reason exists as a consequence of a highly evolved consciousness and persists because of the evolutionary advantage it provides to the survival and well-being of those who have learned the process and to appreciate and value inherent in the practice of reason.

[mibn2cweus]

Proof read:

Nothing is impossible. For anything to be possible there must first be something.

Existence is axiomatic. Existence is implied in any and every thought or action.

The question "Why?" arises as a consequence of reason, a question that can only be answered in relation to an understanding of "How?"

The capacity to reason arises from an advanced level of consciousness where we begin to be aware of relationships between things and how they interact.

Apart from reason, there can be no reason for anything to exist. Reason exists as a consequence of a highly evolved consciousness and persists because of the evolutionary advantage it provides to the survival and well-being of those who have learned the process and to appreciate the value inherent in the practice of reason.

[ToraToraTora]

This is known as the weak athropic principle - we are because we are here to know we are here. Essentially it's like the national lottery x a lot, on a cosmic scale but essentially we have survived all the probablities and ticked all the boxes to be where we are today.

[Bazile]

mibn2cweus

//Nothing is impossible. For anything to be possible there must first be something //

Interesting that .
I remember asking some time ago on here, what was there before the big bang - and was told that there was nothing .

So if there has always been something , then there has not been a begining ?

[venator]

As Omar Khayyam put it (as far as I recall 0

And if the wine you drink, the lip you press end in the nothing all things end in - Yes!

Then fancy while thou art, thou wert but what thou shalt be - nothing - thou shalt not be less!

[mibn2cweus]

//Bazile

mibn2cweus

//Nothing is impossible. For anything to be possible there must first be something //

Interesting that .
I remember asking some time ago on here, what was there before the big bang - and was told that there was nothing .

So if there has always been something , then there has not been a begining ?//

A beginning is . . . something.

Time is relative. An instant as measured in one rest frame would be measured as an eternity in another. Everything has a beginning that commences with that which precedes it, time being no exception.

As far as I can tell, it appears to me that we are living within a black hole which exists within another universe which is itself existing within another universe's black hole . . . perhaps our own.

Perhaps it's better for now to stick with trying to understand just one universe at a time. The answers to such questions may have been right here under our very noses . . . all along.

[nailit]

I really must stop asking questions like this when ive had a few drinks....the questions are usually straightforward but trying to understand the replies when I read them the following day....well, makes me want to drink again!

[Tilly2]

Any excuse, Nailit!

[Psybbo]

A beginning must be the end of something else!

[Tilly2]

...or the end must be the beginning of something else...

[nailit]

Dont muddy the waters you two... ;-)

[Tilly2]

I apologise.

[Psybbo]

Sorry, nailit but Tilly and I must be twins xx