So, the mind makes a false artifact, thinking that a lack of anything can have being. This leaves The Existent to have no opposite and no alternative. Parmenides said that 'Nothing' cannot even be meant.
Beats me! Durability, a notion we're familiar with from advertisements on kitchenware. — Agent Smith
Odd that you did not choose "mystery". Btw, did you have any interest in that paper? :lol: — chiknsld
On the one hand, the idea of collections is as non-mysterious as it gets. — litewave
I once thought of the idea that a soul could be made of unknown particles/fields that normally interact very weakly with known particles/fields, and that's why physicists have not noticed them yet, but the interaction could be significantly amplified in certain complex objects such as a human brain. — litewave
Existence is energy and its modes of being. The more scientific question is not where did existence come from, but where did the constitutions of energy, that is atoms, come from? We can deduce back to a point in time known as a singularity, where all energy in the KNOWN universe started to expand. What was before this, is really the job of the particle physicists to compute.
If we ran a simulation of our universe it might be proven that it is a CYCLICAL event. That time is perpetual. That this energy and that energy comes from some other energy. There are principles in science that point to this 1. Conservation of energy principle. 2. Expanding and contracting energies of the universe. 3. Impossibility of absolute zero.
So we might be able to know where atoms (and their parts) originate through simulation, and we'd know whether time is perpetual or not through simulation.
We are probably even thinking about this wrong, "where do things come from if they come from themselves?" Huh? It seems language is causing this linguistic problem when talking about causality and ontology. — Josh Alfred
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