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Theory Of Nothingness- And The Fourth Law Of Thought: The Principle Of The Exceptional Nature Of Nothingness
We believe that the universe came from nothingness. Nothingness is the state of being of nothing. The state of being of “nothing” is a thing. We are mystified because we believe that nothingness is not a thing and so we believe that it can have no state of being. We misunderstand. Although it sounds illogical to our un-updated modern logic, there is a thing that is nothing. Nothingness is the thing that is nothing, and has a nature.
If Nothingness were nothing then it would be mysterious that universes would emerge from “it”, but nothingness is not nothing. Nothingness is a “thing”. Nothingness is possibility. Nothingness is the source of every possible thing. Impossibility is a limit reserved for things, but not for Nothingness.
Put aside for a moment a “Theory of Everything”. Consider a “Theory of Nothingness”.
In early mathematics the “number” “zero”, which is “the number which is not a number” was initially very difficult for us to grasp. In modern logic “Nothingness” the “thing which is not a thing” remains misunderstood. “Nothingness” is a “thing” we can learn to understand. This may be the key to understanding such things as how mind and matter can appear from Nothingness, and how apparent opposites like…
