Okay just close your eyes for a second and completely zone out. Your task is to imagine nothingness. Okay you can begin... No that's wrong, you imagined darkness. No that's wrong too you imagined a white light. You see it's impossible to imagine absolutely nothing. Nothingness is not a dark room with no sound. Because there you have a space, and even darkness is something. I used to think of nothingness as see through, the only problem is you can always see something through the glass, or through the water. It is only clear if you can see through it, but there is always something to see the other side. Try it. Think of a pane of glass and then imagine what see-through really is. I bet you'll see something through the glass, even if it's just light.
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Nothingness can exist, or be imagined35% Voted for by Mad-Hatter, christopheshea, RuthArabellaTrasher, MusicalMe, checkmate.
The concept of nothingness is certainly possible. There's even a religion focusing on that very concept: Buddhism
nirvana (sp?) is supposed to be the ultimate peace, absolute nothingness, oneness with everything, etc.
So, as interesting as this topic is, I'm afraid that any arguments against it are pretty much moot points. Since Buddhism involves such a concept, and many people are Buddhists, it is, in fact, possible.
"even darkness is something" An interesting theory, but, once again, you are wrong. Darkness is the ABSENCE of light. There are no 'dark rays', only light rays, and darkness is the result of their absence. So, by your own definition, darkness IS nothingness. Just as space is the absence of material.
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An add on21% Voted for by EE Valentine, Piscean Wisdom, TeChNoWC.
(Niiice comment Darkimagination)
So, if you *can't* think, then you have finally imagined nothingness.
It's not possible with a conscious mind, because you are aware of your own consciousness and remain in a world of something.
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It's impossible, but fun to try.21% Voted for by Darkimagination, EE Valentine, black rose spirit.
In conclusion to this I belive that it is impossible to imagine nothingness as it doesn't exist. To really imagine nothingness you would not be able to think, for you think through a three-dimensional brain, and nothingness has no dimensions whatsoever.
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Being and NothingnessVoted for by GaryCGibson.
Sartre's concept was that nothingness is the 'absence' of something, even in memory. The same principle perhaps applies to matter and energy.
Like the eleatic paradox that can be solved in the real world more readily than in the abstract (if objects advance by half quickly to a finish line in steps they quickly get within atomic range and size of the finish line and are drawn over by a nuclear bonding force to the finish line atomic forces) nothingness may be a problem of the criterion too.Nothingness would need to be something that isn't part of the space-time field or any other field or existant thing that exists. Nothingness would need to be non-existence.
It is through such absurdities that some have sought to posit the eternality of souls. Following the principle of conservation of energy and information souls must go on eternally too even if in a future or metaphysical paradigm.A derivative point of that is that without Jesus Christ to draw one to God in the right protocol, the soul perhaps fractiously will be eternally lost in matter and energy or field locales of unimaginable agony. Recently I seperated a shoulder and it is only slowly getting better (perhaps a steroid shot would help some day) and can imagine a bit better what eternal hell with things out of health could be.
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Why?Voted for by Makessenseright.
I don't understand what the point is of imagining nothingness, it (nothingness) will never affect your life in any way it doesn't even exsist! So what's the point of thinking about it?
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Dont imagineVoted for by TeChNoWC.
What if I do not actually do the task? Then I have completed it- because I did not imagine anything. This is when you truly get a taste of what imagining nothing is like.
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There is a concept called the zero ontology in which everything equals nothing. Everything in existence consists of opposite pairs, e.g., for every positive there is a negative, for every plus there is a minus,e.g., for every electron there is a positron, etc. Our own universe deviates slightly from nothingness, but it is counter-balanced by an opposite universe that deviates in the other direction. The sum of all the universes within the multiverse add up to zero. All of the positive and negative information and energy are cancelled out, leaving nothing. Although nothingness contains everything, the single member of a pair `equals something. We live on one of the branches that makeup a pair. Other people live on the other branch of the pair.Please register or login to comment! It's totally free