What is "nothing"

"Nothing" might well just be a statement on which to an extent one refers to what was not rendered and yet is possible,

like no pie in the fridge……….if taken at absolute lengths, once no absolute degree of liberty…..beyond the program competence…... something possible as existing in it (the program)...if one try s to refer beyon.it …….just means that it doesn't refer !

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...my envisioning of simultaneity goes a bit like programs about virtual spaces work..

Oops Fil, did you mean “about how virtual spaces work”

But forgive me, what’s a virtual space

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.its about the difference between potential mapping and actual mapping..

Interesting you should so remark; as an erstwhile amateur cartographer myself I was of course actual. I don’t know what’s meant by potential mapping unless it’s thinking about starting another map

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.whatever is rendered doesn't entail all that it is possible, although all that it is possible is right there in the program to be rendered when and if you need it…

Thou mightest have to elaborate, using terms familiar to the Average Clod (me)

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and by "you" I mean anything not any sort of agent pulling the strings..

Then you suppose by “you” you mean not I but a kind of God, the implication being that She reads all our postings

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.all possible states of a program entail all possible "agency", provided a starting set state is acquired by the program's engine itself, from there what follows is naturally compelled to follow...

Then are you suggesting some sort of beginning for it all

space emerging out of a bunch of mathematical relations in a program...

2...meaning apparently some sort of space must exist a priori...

3-………. in a calculator the number 8 is composed of 7 small strings segments aligned in the shape of an 8

4- "you" needs not agency, "you" is a string itself in a system unfolding from initial conditions…i……….equally the program might well run all potential initial conditions it can run over time...

...hope that was of some help...

VECTOR GRAPHICS

Vector graphics is the use of geometrical primitives such as points, lines, curves, and shapes or polygon(s), which are all based on mathematical expressions, to represent images in computer graphics. "Vector", in this context, implies more than a straight line.

Vector graphics is based on images made up of vectors (also called paths, or strokes) which lead through locations called control points. Each of these points has a definite position on the x and y axes of the work plan. Each point, as well, is a variety of database, including the location of the point in the work space and the direction of the vector (which is what defines the direction of the track). Each track can be assigned a color, a shape, a thickness and also a fill. This does not affect the size of the files in a substantial way because all information resides in the structure; it describes how to draw the vector.

There are instances when working with vector tools and formats is the best practice, and instances when working with raster tools and formats is the best practice. There are times when both formats come together. An understanding of the advantages and limitations of each technology and the relationship between them is most likely to result in efficient and effective use of tools.

Video game bot
In video games, a bot is a type of weak AI expert system software which for each instance of the program controls a player in deathmatch, team deathmatch and/or cooperative human player, most prominently in the first-person shooters (FPSs). Computer-controlled bots may play against other bots and/or human players in unison, either over the Internet, on a LAN or in a local session.[1] Features and intelligence of bots may vary greatly, especially with community created content. Advanced bots feature machine learning for dynamic learning of patterns of the opponent as well as dynamic learning of previously unknown maps – whereas more trivial bots may rely completely on lists of waypoints created for each map by the developer, limiting the bot to play only maps with said waypoints. Using bots is incidentally against the rules of all of the current main Massively multiplayer online role-playing games (MMORPGs).

...maybe you ought to make some reading.

Sophistry implies conscious intent

http://onelook.com/?w=sophistry&ls=a

…...so as an erstwhile writer I don’t think it’s quite the right word

Of course some use the term “nothing" referring to empty pace, a void (JL #346), and so what most of us are discussing I believe might be labeled “absolute” nothingness which of course implies the absence also of space

The basic question seems to revolve around whether nothingness is even possible and if so whether something could have popped out of it

However that we’re alone in the last dozen posts suggests we might not be adding nor clarifying much

I personally am totally convinced nothingness is not possible

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I personally am totally convinced nothingness is not possible

….while I suspect—at risk of repetition--the entire problem is semantic. Those maintaining that something popped out of nothing maintain that nothingness must be a possible state; while the skeptics point out that because it has no qualities it can’t be called a state

But I’m still intrigued about the concept

... no thing ! It is referring already to thingness...

Nothingness intends that you cant even frame thingness...

...and yet negation in order to negate requires, imply s, a priori somethingness, so it cant ever be total complete negation...i

Nothingness intends (to mean) that you cant even frame thingness...

what I find fascinating that from the so called nothing..NO THING comes something at the event horizon point. figure that one out!
Just like there are no empty space. If there is a sapce and can contain anything like planets etc it has dimension..that is something, but not material we humans usually think of.

It kind of does because if it was actually nothing it would mean that it was nonexistent and so it wouldn't be there to name.

...lacking of philosophical education as proven a continuous problem for physicists