Actualized.org - Self-Help, Psychology, Consciousness, Spirituality, Philosophy Why Is There Something Rather Than Nothing?
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Jul 21, 2020 AI Snips
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The Ultimate Metaphysical Question
- The question "Why is there something rather than nothing?" is the deepest metaphysical puzzle and worth serious attention.
- Leo Gura argues it can be answered precisely but requires stretching the mind beyond ordinary assumptions.
Turn Awareness Inward
- Turn your awareness inward and focus on direct experience rather than narratives.
- Resist immediate explanatory stories and cultivate wonder at the fact that anything exists.
Nothing Is Not Stable
- Absolute nothing seems simpler, but simplicity assumes a bias toward static emptiness.
- Leo suggests nothingness would spontaneously become something because nothing cannot prevent change.