Something From Nothing
At the beginning, there was nothing, 0. It’s not “zero”, it’s just mathematically represented by it. This is a more primitive nothing, before numbers and patterns, even before destinction itself. It’s the total lack of anything, which creates a problem.
“Nothing” defines a state, we just went over that definition actually. So it seems that a true state of nothing is not possible. The existence of the concept of “nothingness” is itself a “thing”.
That creates ‘”the “something” that “nothing” appears to be’. At this point this point we’re at
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0 = 0⁰ = 1⁰
and that '"something" that "nothing" appears to be' can’t leave things there, otherwise that “something” is “nothing”, causing an effect which prevents it’s cause in a metalogical absurdity where 0 = 1.
Therefore, that '"something" that "nothing" appears to be' is logically compelled to find some way to be “something” and establishing
0 = 0⁰ = 1⁰ = 1
And this bootstraps the universe which is willing to put in some effort until 1 = 1, at which point it’s done
