RE: No reason justifies disbelief.
March 22, 2019 at 2:56 pm
(This post was last modified: March 22, 2019 at 3:06 pm by bennyboy.)
(March 22, 2019 at 2:48 pm)LadyForCamus Wrote:(March 22, 2019 at 2:01 pm)bennyboy Wrote: "Why is there something rather than nothing?"
Because 'nothing' is logically impossible as a state of being, by its definition.
Yeah, these are the kinds of philosophical truths that sometimes make me wake up screaming in the middle of the night. You put the emoji presumably to indicate that you're joking, but actually I take that as an important philosophical statement. It might even be that paradox itself IS the mechanism by which being is allowed for.
If my personal identity is defined by a positive state of being, then what happens when I cease to exist as a sentient agent? Once being is established, how then does "nothing" become a valid description of my state of being? It seems likely to me that the idea of soul arose more out of this kind of philosophical question than out of a mythological God idea and a fear of death.
This is different than the kind of lacking-of-being of sperm/ovum combinations that never came to fruition-- will a dead bennyboy be in the same state of lacking-of-being that all those combinations are, or is it different somehow because by existing now, some kind of philosophical superposition has been resolved, and cannot be reversed?
