What Remains When Everything Disappears in This Thought Experiment?

I had a childhood conviction that what I am cannot cease to exist. Using Heidegger’s question ‘Why is there something rather than nothing?’ I experimented: if everything material disappears — what remains is what truly is, transparent and void. What would you say to this reasoning? Rupert says: ‘It’s very beautiful intuition that you had as a child, that what you are cannot cease to be . . . I also was very fascinated by Heidegger’s statement . . . But I realised after some time thinking about it that his statement was predicated on the existence of things . . . both the idea of something and nothing are all predicated on things . . . If you ask, what is the experience of that which truly is, it would never formulate its experience of itself in relation to things, neither their presence nor their absence, because it has never experienced those things . . . For that which truly is, there is neither everything nor something. And most importantly, nor nothing . . . there’s a flaw in the question.’

From event 22 May - 25 June, 2025 Weekend in Norway

Subscribe or purchase View event recordings