metaphysics - Can we imagine nothing or can we only conceive a . . . Nothing! -- Yeah, well, but that's not absolute nothingness, isn't it? Philosophical discourse about "nothing" always seems to dissolve into something like the Monty Python sketch of the Norwegian Blue, the poor demised parrot, the stiff that has "joined the invisible choir" Sigmund Freud believed that we cannot "imagine" our own death
nothingness - Does something necessarily come from nothing . . . Throughout the history of time, it has been almost everyone’s intuition that something cannot come from nothing That intuition is so strong that many can’t even imagine this to be false But would
Why is there something instead of nothing? - Philosophy Stack Exchange 'Nothing' might be a result of 'something' There was always 'something' but this 'something' is not always the same Sometimes it changes in to 'something' else This means that the 'something else' is proceeded by its own nothingness You can project this little theory on to our own brain: The concept of 'nothingness' which is fabricated by the brain is nothing more than a result of the fact
How can something come from nothing? - Philosophy Stack Exchange The question should be 'How can something come out of nothing' not 'Why cannot something come out of nothing' Stephen Hawkings has recently argued as to how the universe can come out of nothing, but to my mind his argument is rather circular and it's not provable
What is nothing? - Philosophy Stack Exchange 5 Krauss' definition of nothing is the result of the allergy contemporary physicists get from philosophy; the philosopher David Albert posted a crushing criticism of the book in response and started a terrible fight: Where, for starters, are the laws of quantum mechanics themselves supposed to have come from?
Is this proof that the universe came from nothing valid? The universe didn't "come from" nothing, because the words "come from" have no meaning outside of the universe That would be the scientific position that you can't use concepts relating to time and space outside of time and space Based on the former point, you can't assume that a universe can't create itself
After death there is immortality or nothing [closed] After death there is Immortality or Nothing If you were to die, then what do you think would happen to you? In best case, you go to heaven, and you live there forever in eternal bliss, but how long can you live in bliss when you have eternity At some point in time, heaven will become a mental asylum
metaphysics - What is nothing - Philosophy Stack Exchange How can nothing be real? The basic concept of nothing is the lack of something, so in that statement alone it makes it something The bible says that in the beginning there was a void and nothing
Does any physical entity last forever? - Philosophy Stack Exchange 0 Does it matter? Pun intended If the universe is not supposed to last, why would any matter last? If the universe is supposed to collapse at one moment, everything would have the same fate, hence nothing physical effectively lasts