RE: Why Something Rather Than Nothing?
October 23, 2014 at 11:15 am
(This post was last modified: October 23, 2014 at 11:30 am by Heywood.)
(October 22, 2014 at 10:52 pm)datc Wrote: I ask: Why is there something rather than nothing?
How many ways can there be nothing? Just one way. ThereExists[Empty].
How many ways can there be something? An infinite number of ways.
ThereExists[X].
ThereExists[Y].
ThereExists[Z]
ThereExists[X,Y,P]
Apply the principle of indifference and treat every possible configuration of ThereExist as equally likely. It is simply unlikely that for any given ThereExist, it will be ThereExists[Empty].
Imagine a vat full of marbles...an infinite number of them. All the marbles are white except one. One marble is red. The red marble represents ThereExist[nothing]. The white marbles represent different configurations of ThereExist[Something]. Is it possible that you could randomly draw the red marble? Sure. What is the probability of drawing the red marble? Its 0.
Why is there something rather than nothing? Because while it is possible for ThereExist[nothing] to be the case, the probability it will be the case is 0.
