> A Situation schreef:
>

>> Lots and lots of good blogs and comments here at the site page.
>> This whole issue confuses me as I am constrained by my evolved brain.
>> I consider this question from my engineering background, and immediately
>> go critical and feel my limits.

>
> A limit that we have to cope with is that everything we experience is a
> translation of our brain. How things are for real we cannot say. No
> matter how many empirical experiments we do, our prejudices stay.
>
> I once imagined that for many questions a kind of tao-approach would be
> appropriate. To my understanding this means that in a question both
> positive and negative answers will be true, at the same time.
>
> Why is there something rather than nothing =>
>
> Q: Is there something rather than nothing?
>
> A: No && Yes
>
> How could an answer be positive and negative at the same time?
>
> Well f.i. if we would choose a virtual unit, meaning the unit does not
> exist, this still would mean that the world for this unit would show it
> being different, apart. This virtual unit would have a world where there
> was something, although the unit is virtual. So there is both nothing
> and something.
>
> Us being a unit, means we always have to see a world of something. If
> you loose the unit, there remains nothing.
>
> The world we see defines what unit we are.
>
> Being a more or less variable unit, we also see movement, but instead of
>   this being outside, it is inside, again defining the unit.
>
> The great task is to find a way to control the unit, but we may not have
> the tools yet. Or maybe some scientology people:-)