> -----Original Message----- > From: Hal Ruhl [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > >I think I get it. If nothing exists, that is a state which contains some > >information (i.e. "nothing exists"). To reduce the total > >information content of the system to zero, the state of nothing existing > >must be balanced by states in which something exist. Is > >that right (roughly) ? > > Yes that is my current offering to the effort. I see the Everything since > it contains all information as both manifest and not manifest > simultaneously. It would be in a sort of fuzzy logic state > like 1/2 rather than either 0 or 1.
If nothing exists, including any external time, then the Everything (also known as "the Plenitude", perhaps) contains all available states as a fixed N-dimensional structure (N might well be uncountable infinity). If there *is* an external time, on the other hand, one can imagine some sort of alternation between Nothing and Something. (Otherwise the only sort of alternation possible is a sort of logical one, perhaps?) Charles
