Why Cant You Imagine 'Nothing'?

Question:Does nothing even exist? Surely 'Nothing' is 'Something'

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: Does nothing even exist? Surely 'Nothing' is 'Something'

oh dear elsie...

here's my simple reason :

no...

here's THE simple reason :

you can't imagine nothing because to do that you will have to imagine that you yourself don't exist!

in a sense you have to give up your perception to perceive nothing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

which is kinda... difficult???

did you get my point?

yes or no???

;))

Something comes from nothing.

ahh im also stuck wid dat question!!wenever i wana be alone,something comes in my mind n make me think abt smthing!!unfortunately ull imagine 'nothing ' wen u r unconcious of anythin...

Wouldn't vacuum be an example of 'nothing'? And it also depends on your definition of 'nothing'. Interesting question, my friend and I were debating about this recently.

No imagination. I do it all the time!

I have often wondered this myself. I think the problem is that we have imagination and that makes u s think of all sorts of things..even when we are trying to think of nothing. There is too much in our lives to think of nothing....annoyingly. If you are good at meditation you can sometimes achieve it, but it takes a lot of practice and patience, it certainly dosen't come naturally.

Because "nothing" doesn't exist. Everything is something. When somebody asks what you're doing and you say nothing, it's not true. You're breathing, living, shedding and renewing cells, simply existing, but "nothing" truly doesn't exist. "Nothing" is little more than a concept that implies a lack of something, but a lack of something is impossible because without something, there is no existence. Something is required for anything to exist, but that existence is beyond our comprehension as of yet, however the concept of "nothingness" is the concept that there is possibly something beyond existence.

You can't imagine no-thing because to imagine is to imagine "things".

No-thing is the absence of "things".

As "things" do not really exist, no-thing is all that exists.

I think nothing is more of a feeling than a place..Because if you can measure it phsyically..then surely it's something.

And I think nothing is that feeling you have when you get chewed out at work for something you had no control over...or when your significant other(at the time) tells you that you aren't enough for them and they wished they had tested the field a bit more before stepping in the deep end.....

Bitter? Yes, maybe a bit...but at least I can surely identify what nothing is.

This is very simple! We cannot imagine nothingness because we have life, somethingness! We have never known any other thing except for existance and being. So to even contemplate nothingness is impossible to us, not only that but there is no such thing as nothingness. Our conscience is eternal and will exist no matter where it ends up. Nothingness basically would be being conscience of nothingness, therefore you still have conscience so the nothingness isnt ever complete, it could never be complete. Complete nothingness would make life or somethingness obsolete and without purpose and that just isnt the case. All life has meaning and a purpose, we all effect everything. I hope this helped, but maybe I didnt understand exactly what you meant by this nothingness.

simply because we haven't experienced 'nothing'. we can only imagine things that have features which were familiar to us from one point or another. :)

We cannot conceive of nothing because our conception would, itself, be something. Any subject of any argument is a thing. However, that does not satisefy the question of whether it would be possible for there to be nothing. It is possible for there to be dark without there being anything, since dark is the absence of light. Similarly, there can be cold if heat is gone. Nothing is like dark or cold, it's the lack of things often put in positive rather than negative terms to make it sound like something.

Just because we cannot conceive of it does not mean it could not have been. However, this line of reasoning leads me to the intuition that the concept of nothing is impossible. I have a conjecture that the concept is inconsistent in just such a way as to naturally lead to the sort of something that we actually have. However, I have nothing more than a conjecture based on intuition. I have no argument to back it up.