@[email protected] to Ask Lemmy • 1 day agoWhy would there ever be anything?message-square73fedilinkarrow-up164arrow-down17
arrow-up157arrow-down1message-squareWhy would there ever be anything?@[email protected] to Ask Lemmy • 1 day agomessage-square73fedilink
minus-squareBearlinkfedilinkEnglish0•2 hours agoThese concepts are each defined in relation to something else. Without that something else these concepts are meaningless, absurd, and do not exist.
minus-square@meliaesclink2•2 hours agoBut that assumption, of how reality works, is based on the premise that reality is, has always been, and can only work that way. Maybe opposites coexist in some other concept of reality?
minus-squareBearlinkfedilinkEnglish0•1 hour agoThere are logical impossibilities, for example in no universe does 0 = 1, and the same is true for these concepts.
minus-square@meliaesclink1•edit-219 minutes agoThe fact that time is relative disproves this already. Our understanding is limited by our ability to perceive.
But why?
These concepts are each defined in relation to something else. Without that something else these concepts are meaningless, absurd, and do not exist.
But that assumption, of how reality works, is based on the premise that reality is, has always been, and can only work that way. Maybe opposites coexist in some other concept of reality?
There are logical impossibilities, for example in no universe does 0 = 1, and the same is true for these concepts.
The fact that time is relative disproves this already. Our understanding is limited by our ability to perceive.