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What is nothing?
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SethElite Wrote:So today in fourth period I was pretty bored and was just thinking random stuff when I got this...

In my personal opinion the only reason that humans are able to interact with each other in the way we do is because of our individuality. If there was no individuality everyone would be the same, thus meaning that everyone would no everything about everyone else. There would be no curiosity, and you could then hardy call any interaction that we would have interaction by todays definition.

This brings me to my next point, we are consciously individual, we understand that we are different and this is where curiosity stems from. If individuality was subconscious, then the same scenario I outlined in the first point would take place due to our individuality being an open book for all to read at their whim.. This means that we can choose how to make ourselves individual, and it is not just pre-determined when we are born. It is thought that what makes us who we are is the collective experiences that transpire during our life that our brains record as electronic signals, meaning that everything we perceive is actually just impulses of electricity.

Next, as previously stated we get our individuality from events that transpire though out our lives, not from another individuality. Therefore there is no original individuality, a stand alone complex. If our individuality is a stand alone complex then our consciousness must not be consciousness at all and a copy of nothing. Nothing is nothing no matter how you look at it, meaning that a copy of nothing is still nothing. Human consciousness does not exist, we are just a collective unconsciousness acting conscious though any means necessary.

If we are a collective unconciousness of either one or multiple beings acting as seperate conciousnesses what does that make nothing, since we obviously are concious in some state that means that nothing must therefore be something since without something there would be no consciousness at all, real or fake. The collective subconscious that we are must be striving to be something... But what... What is nothing?

I figure that due to the fact that all of our thoughts, emotions, and memory are just electronic signals it is quite possible that we are all just computer programs in some unconscious supercomputer that is really everything that ever has, ever will, and does exist. Nothingness is just a glitch in this supercomputer without a creator.

You may argue something to do with God, but I am infact an athiest and i believe the same rules I have layed out here would also apply to God if he was real, he would just be nothing trying to be something, even without any idea of what that something must be.

Discuss?

Ya ya, I know, tl;dr Rolleyes

Gods or godlike beings would be hackers in this metaphor (they have the power to manipulate the "supercomputer" at will, or at least to a high degree), and I'm going to say chaotic events (natural disasters, wars, etc) would be viruses, caused either directly by the hacker or by programming decay. Interesting way to view the world, but I personally stick to my belief that everything is in and of itself a figment of my imagination.
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What is nothing? - by SethElite - 2009-06-02, 12:18 AM
What is nothing? - by MasPan - 2009-06-02, 12:29 AM
What is nothing? - by Beserker101 - 2009-06-02, 12:35 AM
What is nothing? - by Veneni - 2009-06-02, 05:53 AM
What is nothing? - by holyforest - 2009-06-18, 11:07 PM
What is nothing? - by Roxas - 2009-06-19, 02:20 AM
What is nothing? - by Nikkey - 2009-06-19, 08:45 PM
What is nothing? - by Russt - 2009-06-19, 09:43 PM

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