Sartrian Motion

One of the most fascinating achievements in contemporary philosophical thought is Sartre's "rehabilitation" of Nothingness. Since Parmenides, Nothingness had been dismissed as ... nothing. But here in the XX century it enters the stage as a main actor of existence.

Sartre thinks in terms of consciousness (Being and Nothingness). But what if we get physical and apply this dichotomy between Being and Nothingness to everything? Can the Universe be explained with a hyper-frequent dialectics of Being and Nothingness? The physical history of the Universe points to the emergence of everything out of very simple states of existence, extreme complexity out of simplicity.
A beautiful constructs of mathematics serves as metaphor of this dynamics, Brownian Motion. This can be constructed as the as limit of more and more frequent random walks. From exquisitely dichotomous motion---up or down---we can construct the prototypical model of random and continuous motion.

I often criticize people who see the world in black and white. But what if the world can be explained as a mind-boggling number of vibrations between blacks and whites? Quantity and Time makes for the possibility of new Qualities. The application I am using to write these words is another embodiment of the potentials of this dichotomy (dialectics?): it is ultimately based on bits, zeros and ones, Nothingness and Being.