Game Universe 3 – The Single Point Universe

In the last experiment area of the Circle in the Perfect Circle Universe contained no difference. It was all the same. There was no truth we couldn’t say about any point inside the circle that we couldn’t say about infinitely many other points in the same circle. If it was True of any point it was True of infinitely many points. Many truths are Trivial about the Perfect Circle Universe.

Think about the circumference of the Perfect Circle. It doesn’t have any width or texture or any property other than something like “being different to the possible points that are not on the circumference.” Just like the innards, the Statements about the edge are equally Meaningless or Trivial.

If you try to question about what’s outside the Perfect Circle in the Perfect Circle Universe, then you know your Question will be meaningless.... but interestingly there seems no difference to the inside as the outside, apart from in that fact alone.

All of these kinds of musings suggest that there is no nontrivial difference between a Perfect Circle Universe and a universe that is no shape or structure or inside or outside, that is, a Perfect Point.

Imagine a Universe that is a Single Point

Stipulate it has no time, space, change, structure... nothing, just a point.

We don’t know what that means in any deep or metaphysical sense. I can’t imagine a Single Point Universe like I think I can a Glove Universe or a Cosmic Universe and I certainly can’t imagine it like I can imagine yesterday’s lunch.  But, just like with gloves and circles and anything else, we can think about and add to the the Truth, False and Meaningless Lists for the Single Point Universe.

Now let’s play... you can go first.  But you have to start with a True Statement or False statement, as Meaningless ones with the Single Point Universe are very abundant.  Most people find it hard to come up with even one, for a while, until they say, with some ephiany, “It just is!”

This is the first truth of the Single Point Universe, “It is.” Which can be expressed in many synonymous ways: “It is” or “The point  exists” or “The point has being”[1]

So that’s One truth and its False:

• True(Single Point universe):
  • The point exists
  • False (Single Point Universe):
    • The point does not exist.

Metaphysically, this notion is a bit of a mindtwister, I find. The idea that something can be nothing but being and that this is distinct from not being. Where does it come from? This is also a Metaphysically mindtwisting question but one we can get something like an answer to, at least for Game Universes.

We know there is the First Rule of noncontradiction. The instant we Stipulate a Single Point universe this rule comes into play. We know the Point  must exist in the Universe because we stipulated A universe that is just one point, nothing else.  If it didn’t exist then it would contradict the Stipulation of its own creation.

Existence is the first property. It is what distinguishes things from nothings. It arises out of Noncontradiction and the Stipulation. There are some questions to ponder on this at the end of the Section, but for now lets find the next Truth about the Single Point Universe.

We know the point exists .It has to exist else rules of the game wouldn’t be being followed, just as 8 fingered ordinary gloves. But it seems that everything else we can say about it is Meaningless.

• Meaningless (Single Point Universe)
  • It is wide
  • It has symmetry
  • It has asymmetry
  • It has parts[2]

It seems. At first, that  all  statements are meaningless but that it exists. Howver there is one more I can think of which you can find by not thinking aboput the point itself but about the Truth and False list defining it.  To recap:

• True(Single Point universe):
  • The point exists
  • False (Single Point Universe):
    • The point does not exist.

All other statements go on the Meaningless  list but one, and this is one that describes the connection between True and False lists. They are not identical, they can never be the same. So now we have two Statements in the True and their negations in the False:

• True(Single Point universe):
  • The point exists
  • The Point is Identical with itself
  • False (Single Point Universe):
    • The point does not exist.
    • The point is not different from itself.

Existence was the first Property, the second Property is Identity. Everything is identical with itself. Nothing is different from itself. It is a Trivial Truth, for sure, but, like the First Rule, like the necessity of Existence, this second Property of all things is that they are self-identical, is Foundational.

What are Properties?

A Property is True of something. There are many kinds of properties[3] and what they all share is that they can be true or false of some possible thing.

All things either have a certain Property in the Game Universe or they do not,  or that Property does not exist in the Game Universe (in which case statements and questions it contains would be Meaningless)

It is important to see, that from the Beginning, from this most simple of “things” Properties arise, they are not introduced.

It is equally important to see that it is very easy to “accidentally” introduce Properties into the Game Universes. The moment we do that we are committing one of the biggest faux pas in Philosophy

Conclusion: The Single Point Philosopher

The Single point universe is logically the most Simple Universe anything could consistently imagine or represent. All we can say are four Trivial statements about it.  It is the most minimal part, or point, we can conceive of and speak logically about.

Before you go onto the next experiment you should think about the Single Point Universe in every way you can and whatever way you feel. Maybe you can meditate, maybe you can contemplate, maybe you can try to visualise, or otherwise represent it somehow to yourself. Maybe you just think about the Truth Lists that describe it.

You will find there are countless questions you cannot answer or make sense of, but you should never find contradiction.  Try to disprove its possibility or doubt the Points existence.  Try to show the Game has a flaw in its very rules that leads to inconsistency.

And then you might like to try to use whatever you have acquired from these philosophisings  to help you think through these kinds of questions about the Single Point Universe:

• Is there any mystery about what Existence is in the Single Point Universe other than Stipulation and No contradiction?
• Is an analogous Question relative to our Universe:  “What Stipulations lead to the Big Bang?”
• Can you make sense of the Single Point not existing in the Single Point Universe?
• What is the difference between it existing and not existing?
• Does it contain Pi?
• Does the Single Point Universe contain the anything like time or space?
• Is it true that 4+6=10 in the Single Point Universe?
• If it exists can it then not exist?
• Are the Truth Lists of the Single Point Universe contained within the reality we are now in, This Universe?
• Are all things identical with themselves in this universe, like they are in the Single Point Universe?

Most of these Game Universes are going to be constructed using just Single Points, exactly like above. And this is why I think it is important that you have a logical and metaphysical understanding of the limits of the Single Point Universe. To be able to say why statements are true, false or meaningless.

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[1] When we speak of “Statements” in the game we mean logically equivalent. It doesn’t matter what way or language they are expressed in if they express the same truth.

[2] I’m not sure about this. Maybe its False.

[3] Existing, being identical with, containing, loving, being before....