Re: Why is there something instead of nothing?

From: George Levy <glevy.domain.name.hidden>
Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2003 22:14:32 -0800

John Collins wrote:

>One interpretation of
>the universe of constructible sets found in standard set theory textbooks is
>that even if you start with nothing, you can say "that's a thing," and put
>brackets around it and then you've got two things: nothing and {nothing}.
>And then you also have {nothing and {nothing}}
>

Why start with nothing? Isn't this arbitrary?
In fact zero information = all possibilities and all information = 0
possibility.
of course, (0 possibility) = 1 possibililty

What is not arbitrary? Certainly anything is arbitrary. The least
arbitrary seems to be everything which is in fact zero information.
.
Start with the set(everything) and start deriving your numbers.
To do this, instead of using the operation set( ), use the operation
elementof( ).
Hence one=elementof(everything) and two = elementof(everything - one);
three = elementof(everything - one - two)

George
Received on Mon Nov 17 2003 - 01:16:11 PST