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Is he cheating on just me or with the Second Law of Thermodynamics? (files.catbox.moe)
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[–] MataVatnik 58 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (5 children)

There reason there is something instead of nothing is survivorship bias. Since nothing is nothing, including no time, there will ALWAYS be something because nothing can't exist outside of something.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 3 months ago (2 children)

So, nothing doesn't exist?

[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Nothing isn't everywhere.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

What is everywhere, then?

Nothing.

[–] NorthWestWind 7 points 3 months ago (2 children)
[–] Feathercrown 3 points 3 months ago

In the year negative never and also now, nothing is nothing. When? NO

https://youtu.be/wjU9BA68zyU?si=Nry0S2foJmRaNj1f

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

That's pretty nifty, I would say.

[–] MataVatnik 1 points 3 months ago

Fuuuuu

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Nothing is on first.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

I don’t know is on third.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago

Nothing only exists when you have something to compare it to.

[–] Buddahriffic 15 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Ok, but why is there something to experience survivorship bias? Why is any of this at all instead of just not anything?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago

The godhead got bored and felt like playing hide-and-seek.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Because I said so

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

No reason. It's just that when there wasn't anything to experience it, nobody asked themselves that question.

So the question is a consequence of our existence, and that's the answer

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

This particular flavour of survivorship bias is also called the anthropic principle

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

Honestly the only way to make sense of any of this that I have ever found is panpsychism, Advaita Vedanta etc.

This is all just a “dream” or non-computational “simulation”. Everything is consciousness. Physics is an emergent feature of consciousness.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

Your consciousness is something though. This doesn't answer the question as it assumes your consciousness has to exist, to experience survivorship bias. Why is there anything, including tour consciousness, rather than nothing? And your scenario, where there is nothing and something, and your consciousness is in the something, presumes a reality with something. So if doesn't answer the question. It's like someone asking 'why does 1+1=2' and you say 'because 0+1+1=2'