In-der-Blog-sein

Silliman's Papers takes a serious look at the knotty problem of nothing:

The greater problem in understanding nothing, the problem that Carnap doesn't touch and the question that really concerns Heidegger, is the question of how to understand "it" (nothing) without "it" (nothing) becoming an "it" (an object, a thing). We think about something as something but to do this with nothing is to negate the essence in the question. The question, Heidegger says, deprives itself of an object. This "formal impossibility" and "ostensible absurdity" of the question of nothing seem to again bar us from the important questions.

Not to be naughty, but is this related to the question of whether naught is nothing? Is zero just another number? To a compiler or assembler it is just another state (as opposed to null), but I recently read a philosophy paper that made a big deal about the digital world world being reduced to zeros or ones, or, in their words, nothing and something. Truthfully though, digital 1s and 0s, merely represent two different states, they are mere signifiers, and can be reversed. What is relevant in the digital world is whether data represents something or is random (nothing).  ¶ 7:34 AM