What is EXISTENCE?
It is true, or at least “feels” so, that “we” “exist”. But what does the three quoted (” “) words imply. We “know” what it implies, we “experience” it. What is “experience”? What is “reality”? We “know” what is real, but what is “real” itself?
Is there a beginning? Why is there a beginning? Why is there “why?”?, Why is there “why is there “why?”?”, and so on …..
What is “fact”? Can “existence” itself be defined, can it be defined in terms of the “other” or “Not” of existence? i.e. in terms of what it is not? i.e. by non-existence?
If no, it (Existence) is the Absolute Basis. I’ll go further and extend this and say that, any particular existence is what defines itself and nothing else, and it is the ultimate Basis of itself. So then, there is no “link”/”relation” between any existences ‘A’ and ‘B’, where A is not B and B is not A. Any thing/existence A defines and justifies itself, so is with B. The basis of A is A itself, the basis of B is B itself. There is no relation between A, B, C, D, E, …, – the Quantum or bits or fundamental (smallest) chunks of existence or existence/existential-space, and that includes all relations. This is also true for and no different for the “causal” relation or any relations such as “laws” of Nature or of “God” and “God”, and axiomatic structures, logical structures, etc.
The Absolute answer is “NOTHING”. ‘Nothing’ is the Absolute/Ultimate. This is equivalent to what’s mentioned above that the existence, in fact any existence itself, is the Absolute (with respect to itself).
The reason we have an infinite (relational) regressions like the ones in case of one cause after another, is the inherent seeking or search for the relation between any “two” ‘things’ or ‘existences’, which have no relation at all – are ‘infinitely’ independent, to the point that the term “two” mentioned also does not exit. This ‘apparent’ ‘invisible’ ‘link’/’connection’ connecting the ‘things’/’existences’ is what leads to, and is in fact, this regression that extends to one after another. By the way, it cannot even be called ‘infinite regression’ because no matter how much it extends, it remains finite, never realizing ‘infinity’. The various structures such as “laws” of Nature or of “God” and “God”, and axiomatic structures, logical structures, fundamental structures, structures emerging from the association/connection of fundamental structures, from particle-antiparticles pairs to quarks to nuclei to nucleus to atom to atoms to molecules to complex chemical and organic structures to more organized structures such as DNA, cells, organs, species, humans, societies, cultures, nations, religions, civilizations, any other organizations, etc, are all due to these ‘connections’. This is all in search for extension/longevity – greater/larger/longer existence or sustenance of existence throughout the space of existence as greater as can be, of which longevity is an special/particular case, and eventually in search of existence throughout entirety and infinity and thus the search of Permanence/Absolute/Ultimate/Immortality.
But why are things or existences linked? Linking/relating states and pursuit of ‘common’ in them and the apparent commonality, and the regressions that appear and are so prevalent, is all part of the extension of a particular existence throughout the existential space – the State[ment]verse, and uniformation or unification throughout. With growing ‘uniformity’ and ‘commonality’ and the spread of existence, existence climbs the ladder towards the Absolute. But Absolute being nothing, i.e. ‘Nothing’, Absolute is at infinity. Therefore, ‘Nothing’ being the only permanent and Absolute, Existence is not immortality/Permanence/Absolute. Existence and Permanence are complements. (By the way, note/check out the Energy-Time Uncertainty Principle/relation) But Nothing being Everything, ‘Everything’ is permanent as well. Also, Permanence/absolute/Nothing/Everything being infinite, cannot be defined/measured and thus cannot be attained or achieved.
[Also, any Existence, for or with respect to itself is infinite and is the ultimate basis for itself, so any existence cannot be defined by anything ‘else’ but itself or within itself. It cannot be defined in terms of what is the ‘other’/exterior with respect to that existence. For that existence, there is no exterior or beyond itself; the ‘Not’ of that existence does not exist for or with respect to that existence.]
Now, existence realizing the impossibility of ‘existence-immortality/permanence’, returns to ‘nothing’ and thus attains permanence. But again non-existence in pursuit of being existent attains existence but looses permanence. This whole thing can be put as about this contradiction, and visualized in this format:
https://dhiresh114.blogspot.com/2021/07/the-story-of.html
Whatever can be ‘achieved’, any achievable goal, is within the finite/finitude. This implies, there is a ‘Not’ of this ‘goal’, there is a beyond or ‘other’ with respect to it. Therefore, it has no permanence/absoluteness. So, any goal achieved is, in a sense, again unachieved, as it is not permanent. Whatever achievement that be, be it one more layer of ‘reason’ or a new fundamental layer of justification/basis – an answer to the next deeper level of the ‘why?’ question, the next ‘why?’ question will present itself. The previous answer then will be useless and no more much fundamental, but the most fundamental to this point nonetheless, and just a new arbitrary entity. The achievement eventually dies out as it is not permanent, no ‘finite’/finitude is.
The only way to achieve permanence is to become one with ‘Nothing’ and thus with ‘Everything’, the only way is to not achieve it at all, and not achieve anything or any existence.
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