Two player game Vs One player game?

[Mellowmarsh]

A thing cannot destroy or violate its own nature, or that a part cannot attack the whole from which it is inseparable.

[Joseph Maynor]

This might be true if you could prove the "cannot" in both places you use it.

[Mellowmarsh]

6 minutes ago, Joseph Maynor said:

This might be true if you could prove the "cannot" in both places you use it.

This might also be true if you could disprove the prove. 

[Mellowmarsh]

Can apple or cannot apple bite itself?

Is there such an action as a notcan action? 
 

[Mellowmarsh]

1. Lao Tzu: The Generative Void

For Lao Tzu, "nothing" (Wu) and "everything" (the Ten Thousand Things) are conjoined through mutual birth. He argues that they are not just related, but that "nothingness" is the very thing that makes "everything" useful and possible. 

The Utility of the Empty: Lao Tzu famously pointed out that while we make a wheel with thirty spokes, it is the hole in the middle that makes it useful. Similarly, we shape clay into a vessel, but it is the emptiness inside that holds the water.

A "Pregnant" Nothingness: In Taoism, the "Void" is not a sterile absence but a "primordial generative nothingness". It is the womb of existence, where "Being and non-being give birth to each other". 

 

2. Parmenides: The Impossibility of "Nothing"

Parmenides took a more radical, logical stance. He argued that nothing and everything are so inseparable that "nothing" cannot even exist—there is only the "One".

Thought requires an Object: He believed that you cannot think of "nothing" because to think of it is to make it "something" in your mind. Therefore, "what-is-not" is literally unthinkable and unspeakable.

The Seamless Whole: Because "nothing" (the void) cannot exist, there is no space to separate "everything." Therefore, reality must be a single, continuous, eternal, and unchanging block of Being. For Parmenides, the appearance of separate things is just a "deceitful show" of the senses.

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[Mellowmarsh]

To speak of these things is to speak to a state of boundless unity (0=♾️)