Why is there something instead of nothing?

You sound like that cat who tried to see if he existed by first saying he would denounce all things he held true before. He them came up with some weird illogical proof of how God existed.

Know who I am talking about?

Originally posted by Symmetric Chaos
One can't not be on a boat. That is, one cannot not be when one is involved with something that clearly exists.

So, one might say the opposite is true. A boat can't not be if you are on it. Meaning that something exists because something exists to observe the something that exists.

If the boat does not exist and the person on the boat does not exist: One is not on a boat with no one on it. Which works out rationally meaning that rationality exists as part of nothingness thereby negating nothingness in to something.

😑

Well that was fun.

That makes absolutely no sense...

Nothing by definition can not have a boat, or somebody that believes he has a boat or something that even resembles a boat, or something that resembles something else for that matter. Nothing doesn't have anything, it's the absence of everything. But you are right something does exist, that much is proven by us being alive...

Or me at least, can't be sure about you guys.

Originally posted by Symmetric Chaos
One can't not be on a boat. That is, one cannot not be when one is involved with something that clearly exists.

So, one might say the opposite is true. A boat can't not be if you are on it. Meaning that something exists because something exists to observe the something that exists.

If the boat does not exist and the person on the boat does not exist: One is not on a boat with no one on it. Which works out rationally meaning that rationality exists as part of nothingness thereby negating nothingness in to something.

😑

Well that was fun.

Originally posted by Fishy
That makes absolutely no sense...

Nothing by definition can not have a boat, or somebody that believes he has a boat or something that even resembles a boat, or something that resembles something else for that matter. Nothing doesn't have anything, it's the absence of everything. But you are right something does exist, that much is proven by us being alive...

Or me at least, can't be sure about you guys.

The boat is a metaphor. The boat is everything but the observer. 🙄

. . .

Which is rather worse than a boat I suppose.

Originally posted by Mindship
Anthropic Principle 101?

Perhaps. But my version uses a quote from Rozencrantz And Guildenstern Are Dead and makes a hell of a lot less sense.

Originally posted by Mindship
Nothing is fun.

You're worse than me.

Originally posted by Symmetric Chaos
The boat is a metaphor. The boat is everything but the observer. 🙄

You can't observe nothing though, because it isn't there.