The state of affairs (not State of Affairs) wherein nothing exists cannot possibly by inconsistent, for it contains nothing. The question is, why this populated, consistent world (presumably it is not inconsistent) and not the other?
Perhaps this question is a wrong question because nothing, in fact, does exist. I’m envisioning something beyond the multiverse, alternate realities that are exactly that, other realities, totally disjoint from ours, inaccessible in every possible and impossible way. Like the universe under your fingernail… except it’s not under your fingernail, it is Nowhere. Some of these realities are empty; nothing exists. But some, like ours, are not.
We talk of the origin of existence. What if it originated multiple times? Basically, let’s assume the statements “nothing exists” and “something exists” are both true. Where does that take us?
These alternative realities do not exist, because they do not conform to our mode, our universe’s (or multiverse’s) mode of existence; but they conform to their own mode. Or do they? Nes or yo?
The state of affairs (not State of Affairs) wherein nothing exists cannot possibly by inconsistent, for it contains nothing. The question is, why this populated, consistent world (presumably it is not inconsistent) and not the other?
Perhaps this question is a wrong question because nothing, in fact, does exist. I’m envisioning something beyond the multiverse, alternate realities that are exactly that, other realities, totally disjoint from ours, inaccessible in every possible and impossible way. Like the universe under your fingernail… except it’s not under your fingernail, it is Nowhere. Some of these realities are empty; nothing exists. But some, like ours, are not.
We talk of the origin of existence. What if it originated multiple times? Basically, let’s assume the statements “nothing exists” and “something exists” are both true. Where does that take us?
These alternative realities do not exist, because they do not conform to our mode, our universe’s (or multiverse’s) mode of existence; but they conform to their own mode. Or do they? Nes or yo?