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nothing is entirely separate or autonomous
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Okay, sir, we're ready for the second experiment.
-Are we analyzing the same Nothing as before?
Well, theoretically, no sir, because Nothing is entirely separate.
-Nothing is separate?
Yes. That means you cannot analyze the same Nothing twice.
-So? So...you had to put a new sample of Nothing in the analyzer?
Well, actually, no. The Nothing in the analyzer
becomes a new sample.
-Okay, I give up. How does this Nothing replace the old Nothing?
Damn, how do I explain this? The new Nothing doesn't
replace the old Nothing.
-So how the hell do we have Nothing that isn't the old Nothing?
According to theory, sir, it's because Nothing is autonomous.
-Autonomous? How the frickin hell can Nothing be autonomous.
Autonomousity is the physical property of not being subject to Natural Law.
-Nothing is not subject to Natural Law?
Absolutely correct, sir! I couldn't have said it better myself.
-So what the frick does that mean, you techno-loony!
Please, sir, calm down. It just means that you
can assign a nonstate vector to Nothing.
-This just goes on and on and on, doesn't it? What's a nonstate vector?
It's kind of like a name tag of a particle's identity in Space-Time, sir, only it's blank.
-You've got ten seconds to say something rational or I pull this trigger.
Wait! Really! The bottom line is, you can't associate an identity to Nothing, except for the null identity.
-Okay, that begins to make sense. And?
Well, it's Nothing, right! It can't be differentiated from other Nothings.
-Why do I feel like you're leading me around in a big circle?
It's because
Nothing is entirely separate or autonomous! But never both at the same time! See?
-I hate you. I really, really hate you...
Stop! Nothing is separate, so it's impossible to analyze the same sample of Nothing twice...
-I have never hated anyone so much as I hate you...
Except you can when Nothing is autonomous -- when it's not bound by Natural Laws...
-This world would be such a better place without the likes of you...
Because being separate is the only Natural Law that Nothing can obey.
-There's not a jury in the world that would... Hunh? So, we CAN analyze the same Nothing twice?
Yessir. But only when it's autonomous.
-And how, pray tell, do we know when our Nothing in the analyzer is autonomous?
Well you can't never
know, sir, because of Neitherburg's Nonuncertainty Principle.
-Which is?
Nothing is entirely separate or autonomous, but you can only tell which when it doesn't matter.
[BANG!] [BANG!] [BANG!] [BANG!] [BANG!] [BANG!] 
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Re: Nothing
what bohm meant, or should have meant, or should have said, is what r.t. george has said all along, i.e., nothing is not connected. when nothing is not connected, you can always tell. 
semantics is not always just pedantic quibbling. ~ douglas r. hofstadter
