DM> DM>> The question has enormous meaning as the "something" option is
DM> DM>> tricky once beyond religion........... ...that "something is",
DM> DM>  IS the more absurd .
DM> DB> I've been fooling with the idea of complete Chaos, and find
DM> DB> that it supplies the usual idea of no-thing, except that the
DM> DB> former is capable of generating the universe out of nothing.
DM>     I tend to believe that both our conceptual and vocabulary
DM>     limits are somewhat against us. We are probably dealing with
DM>     elements of existence that are (for now) a bit beyond what
DM>     the human mind can shape into meaning.
I agree.  Gambling has been described as a tax on people who
cannot understand statistics.  The H. sap. brain seems to
compulsively find order, even in places where there is no order.
It seems to be incapable of grasping situations where there is
no order.
For example, tell me this:  I flip a coin ten times, and ten times
is comes up heads.  Tell me the odds that it may come up heads
on the 11th toss.
DM> DB> Both 'nothing' and 'chaos' lack any means of discerning any
DM> DB> sort of system or separation between 'this' and 'that'.
DM>     "nothing" and "chaos" may NOT lack discernment. We might
DM>      entertain the notion that there are other "LOGICS", instead
DM>      of trying to beat to death that little we know. Likely that
DM>      WE (a we bit arrogant) are the element lacking discernment!
DM>      I feel that our being mired in "old thinking" limits what we
DM>      might have the capability to yet know! .......just a private
DM>      wager-ish notion.
Keep in mind that the human brain seems to be wired to find pattern
and meaning, and has a powerful emotional need to do so.  What will
it find when the only 'patterns' are random?
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