From: Emlyn O'regan (oregan.emlyn@healthsolve.com.au)
Date: Sun Jun 16 2002 - 22:51:14 MDT
I understand the fundamental idea that nothing *cannot* exist, by
definition; there must always be something. I think the more useful question
is always "Why does this particular something exist, rather than some other
something?"
Emlyn
> So let's ask again: Why does anything exist in the first
> place? If there
> are vacuum fluctuations, why does there exist a spacetime and
> a set of
> physical laws that cause vacuum fluctuations within it? Even
> perfectly
> empty space would not be Nothing in the sense that is being
> discussed here.
> Nothingness is the absence even of space; the absence of
> all process and
> computation.
>
> --
> Eliezer S. Yudkowsky http://singinst.org/
> Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence
>
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