| Lost,
thanks for joining the discussion. I agree with what you're saying but I think you are wrong in a very technical sense. Nothing exists as nothing, which means technically it does not exist as something. In this case maybe we should rephrase our definition. Nothing does not form a meaningful part of everything. We reserve meaning for things which are something and meaning is most important when we talk about definition so that's why we like to paraphrase the definition of everything and say nothing does not form part of everything. In reality nothing <i>does</i> form part of everything technically but it has no value. So perhaps it is true that everything is all that exists plus all that doesn't, but all that doesn't exist is considered to be irrelevant, nothing, and nothing has no meaning. Thus all that doesn't exist is meaningless with regards to everything. It has no value in the definition. Similarly, since nothing has no value, both of these statements are equal
everything=everything plus nothing
everything=everything minus nothing
therefore nothing is irrelevant so we just disclude it and again we arrive at
everything=everything (which exists)
I think Dustin actually just said that but I already was writing this before he put his last post
ps. Nothing is the same as non-existence and we have to keep that definition strict.
another ps. if something either could or could not exist at some point in time we call it a possibility, and possibility forms everything because everything is defined strictly as possible. Nothing is defined strictly as impossible and nothing is the ONLY thing defined as impossible. So everything does not just mean what exists now, it means everything possible. If something is impossible then it is nothing which means meaningless. Events of time are technically pre-determined because after eternity everything will have happened and everything is all possible things, thus the only thing you can predict that won't happen is nothing. Thus you can literally predict everything, if you catch my meaning.
cheers, SubVersion  |