Play a game of nothings, with me
Double or quits, I’ll win, you’ll see
Nothing exists, you’ll surely learn
Best of three, there’s no rules, your turn
-Well, err, there’s only infor…
No, there’s only numbers
-If there’s only numbers, then
There’s only the primes
The others are just combinations
Of these fundamental units
On which we spend
Too much of our concentration
-There are no things, in the net Universe
I don’t actually think, therefore, I’m not
Well, ‘I know nowt, I know that’, for sure
So, there must be at least one thing
But maybe, not a lot
-If there’s only two things
They are the Universe’s wave function
And my utility function
And simply nothing more
-Aha, quantum and consciousness
Or…
If there’s only three things
Rock, paper, scissors…
…Win, lose or draw
-If it’s three, then, zero, one and infinity
Nothing else exists
Just ‘fettle’ some ones, to get all the numbers
Cos the other two, are fixed
-If there’s four
You gotta adore
Sensation and sense
Knowledge and understanding
-Each creation, equals more
Than, the sum of its parts
The meaning of countless
Works of art, still outstanding
-Nah. if there’s only four
It’s space and time
Matter and energy
No need for more
-Nope, that’s reducible
Spacetime’s a single thing
And matter’s just frozen energy
So we’re back to just two, all in
-Oh, and no consciousness in there?
Physics, but no thoughts, to declare?
Nope, just disinformation, not a care
All the ideas, in the end, go nowhere
-Well, you got as far as four, or perhaps more
But hidden fails, nailed your argument’s coffin
No matter how high you fly, and you’ll go high
You’ll fall back to my side, with nothing