Can there ever be nothing (rephrased)?
if you take nothing as a double entendre then you could say the word nothing is something or you could say nothing is just a word to describe the absence of something. Also are you able to apply the same concept of Schroedinger’s cat paradox to the question, where it does and doesn’t exist at the same time because we have nothing to prove it so or to disprove it completely. Or is it relative where it changes from person to person?
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in order for there to be any thing you have to have an oposite of it so you have to everythig to have nothing
@kapuerajam, why does there have to be an opposite? Freud would say that everything has an opposite, and Buddha would as that every opposite is equal. And I’d take Buddha over Freud any day ;)
@monsoon: what makes you think that Freud would say that everything has an opposite?
On the other hand, I would say that Hegel would definitely say everything has an opposite… Freud, I don’t really know… Lacan, probably not
@felip. You got me. I went to find a source, only realize humbly that I was thinking of Carl Jung’s opposition principle, not Freud’s.
Either way the principle states that the outer world is filled with opposites, and so our psyche is filled with opposites that create tension for our libido.
Anywho.
I don’t know… Something’s nagging at me and telling me that it’s probably linked to the concept of zero…
For me, I wouldn’t want to get stuck in a quagmire of thought over this issue.
Zero = Nothing = No thing = A total absence of anything
But to answer the original question, I think that there can never be nothing. And if there ever is, we won’t be able to prove or disprove it because we wouldn’t be able to see or sense it (it being nothing).
Perhaps we could even go so far as to say that the perception of nothing would turn it into something (which would wreak havoc with any experiments trying to prove the existence of nothing).
I suppose you just have to believe that nothing exists. =P
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