Reality is Pure Absence
Reality is Pure Absence
If an absence of an absence is a thing and the absence of a thing is an absence is reality purely absence considering all things are an absence of absence?
Re: Reality is Pure Absence
What even is so-called 'pure absence'?
And, 'Reality' IS 'Reality', and NOT so-called 'pure absence'.
And, 'Reality' IS 'Reality', and NOT so-called 'pure absence'.
Re: Reality is Pure Absence
A pretty good example of the fact that reality isn't made up of words.
Re: Reality is Pure Absence
absenceOf(x) is a predicate while "absence" (value 0) and "thing" (value 1) are values in the domain, which is a finite Galois field of order 2.
The absenceOf predicate can be implemented with the x+1 expression:
absenceOf(x) = (x+1) mod 2
Example calculations:
absenceOf(absence) = absenceOf(0) = (0+1) mod 2= 1 = thing
absenceOf(thing) = absenceOf(1) = (1+1) mod 2= 0 = absence
So, in general, the relationship between "absence", i.e. "nothing", and "thing", i.e. "something", can be modeled by arithmetic in a Galois field of order two.
This functions in an abstract, Platonic reality that may or may not be structurally similar to some aspects of physical reality.
Arithmetic in the Galois field of order two is also the canonical environment for Aristotelian/Boolean two-valued logic. It is a special field, if only, because it is the smallest possible field.
Re: Reality is Pure Absence
Cool.godelian wrote: ↑Tue Feb 04, 2025 1:40 amabsenceOf(x) is a predicate while "absence" (value 0) and "thing" (value 1) are values in the domain, which is a finite Galois field of order 2.
The absenceOf predicate can be implemented with the x+1 expression:
absenceOf(x) = (x+1) mod 2
Example calculations:
absenceOf(absence) = absenceOf(0) = (0+1) mod 2= 1 = thing
absenceOf(thing) = absenceOf(1) = (1+1) mod 2= 0 = absence
So, in general, the relationship between "absence", i.e. "nothing", and "thing", i.e. "something", can be modeled by arithmetic in a Galois field of order two.
This functions in an abstract, Platonic reality that may or may not be structurally similar to some aspects of physical reality.
Arithmetic in the Galois field of order two is also the canonical environment for Aristotelian/Boolean two-valued logic. It is a special field, if only, because it is the smallest possible field.
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Re: Reality is Pure Absence
absence has nothing on nonsense
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