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Author Topic: NOTHING, AKA: You can define reality: A suggestion game!  (Read 11160 times)

RadtheCad

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NOTHING, AKA: You can define reality: A suggestion game!
« on: January 02, 2014, 07:09:34 pm »

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NOTHING.
« Last Edit: January 06, 2014, 03:15:07 pm by RadtheCad »
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Re: NOTHING
« Reply #1 on: January 02, 2014, 07:10:41 pm »

>something
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RadtheCad

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« Reply #2 on: January 02, 2014, 07:16:03 pm »

Er...  Sorry, but there's nothing here, this was an accidental misposted-

Ah, screw it.





Suddenly, from the Blank, SOMETHING apparently spontaneously springs into existence.  The SOMETHING is glorious, indeed.  However, vaguely defined as it is, you can not seem to obtain any more information from it.  Indeed, the SOMETHING is defined only by existing information surrounding it;  and that information is currently very sparse.

Oh.  And then there's YOU.  YOU are even more vaguely defined.  By virtue of your having given a command, you exist, can think, and can express concepts.  That, however, is all.
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Re: NOTHING
« Reply #3 on: January 02, 2014, 07:18:37 pm »

> Cognito ergo sum
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« Reply #4 on: January 02, 2014, 07:23:41 pm »

You think, therefore you are.  Self-perpetuating logic, but valid here, nonetheless.  Unfortunately, this has not changed your position;  you were already defined as existing and being capable of thought;  this remains as it was.

YOU exist.  You can think.  You can express concepts.

SOMETHING exists.
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Re: NOTHING
« Reply #5 on: January 02, 2014, 07:30:43 pm »

>DEFINE OURSELVES AS LOGIC

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« Reply #6 on: January 02, 2014, 07:40:56 pm »

YOU are now the relatively anthromorphised incarnation of LOGIC.

You are the system behind all logical processes in existence, have the capacity to think, and can express concepts in a hereto undefined manner.

Additionally, you can define undefined parts of reality, GROUNDING them.
« Last Edit: January 03, 2014, 09:17:28 am by RadtheCad »
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Re: NOTHING
« Reply #7 on: January 02, 2014, 08:09:34 pm »

>Reason that the SOMETHING has to be a thing!
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« Reply #8 on: January 02, 2014, 08:11:01 pm »

The SOMETHING is indeed a thing.  What it is exactly, however, is as of yet undefined.
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« Reply #9 on: January 02, 2014, 08:14:25 pm »

Rationalize SOMETHING as definable by virtue of definition. Or, in other words, SOMETHING is what we say it is because we created SOMETHING to be just that.

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Re: NOTHING
« Reply #10 on: January 02, 2014, 08:14:39 pm »

>Define it as something of interest. Maybe something that is in direct conflict with us.
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« Reply #11 on: January 02, 2014, 08:15:39 pm »

>Define it as something of interest. Maybe something that is in direct conflict with us.
Define it as CHAOS.

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« Reply #12 on: January 02, 2014, 08:16:23 pm »

>Define it as something of interest. Maybe something that is in direct conflict with us.
Define it as ORDER.
Because screw being Order.

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« Reply #13 on: January 02, 2014, 08:19:11 pm »

The SOMETHING is of direct interest to YOU.  It may or may not be in direct conflict with you;  the ambiguity unsettles you somewhat.

It is the representation of both CHAOS and ORDER.  How it manages this is undefined.  Whether it is sentient or not is undefined.

YOU can define undefined aspects of reality.  Therefore, YOU can define undefined aspects of SOMETHING with absolute authority.

(Hey, anything goes.  This thread was an accident anyway;  you can define what you wish as whatever you wish, so long as it's undefined.  That's your power.)
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« Reply #14 on: January 02, 2014, 08:22:04 pm »

Define WAAAGH.
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