Why is there something rather than nothing? (Humans)

by dhw, Wednesday, March 30, 2011, 08:31 (4784 days ago) @ Balance_Maintained

TONY: The reason the concept of nothing is so hard to fathom is because it is an impossible state. 'Nothing', much like 'Time', 'Darkness', and the 'color black', is an intellectual construct that has no place in reality other than as an abstract to help us understand 'something'. Binary thinking is dangerous in that way. It allows us to create a concept that does not really exist and try to use it as if it does exist.-Please put me out of my philosophical misery and 1) define what you mean by "reality", and 2) give me three examples of things that are "real".